Distance Learning : Information Access and Services for Virtual Users

ISBN-13: 9780789020529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 168 str.

Hemalata Iyer

Opis

Nine articles discuss information support services for distance education. Iyer (information science and policy, State U. of New York, Albany) categorizes them as either focusing on innovative ways to access Web resources or specific programs. Topics include technical, pedagogical, and fiscal aspect

Spis treści

• Introduction
• The Challenges and Benefits of Asynchronous Learning Networks
• What Distance Learners Should Know About Information Retrieval on the World Wide Web
• Yahoo! Do You Google? Virtual Reference Overview
• The Growing and Changing Role of Consortia in Providing Direct and Indirect Support for Distance Higher Education
• Instructional Services for Distance Education
• Virtually Teaching: Library Instruction via the Web
• Information Literacy at Ulster County Community College: Going the Distance
• Implications of Culture in Distance Education
• Assessing Outcomes with Nursing Research Assignments and Citation Analysis of Student Bibliographies
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Hemalata Iyer, PhD, is Associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. Her academic interests focus on structuring and representing information, user behavior, Web-based instructional technology, cognitive aspects of retrieval, including applications of WordNet to information retrieval. Her book, Classificatory Structures: Concepts, Relations, and Representations, examines knowledge structures from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. She is also Editor of the book Electronic Resources: Use and User Behavior. Dr. Iyer teaches courses at the master’s level and is also a full faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Information Science. In addition to her teaching and research, she served for several years as the U.S. Regional Coordinator for the International Society for Knowledge Organization.