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CIT INFOBITS April 2005 No. 82 ISSN 1521-9275
About INFOBITS
INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information and instructional technology sources that come to
her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to
educators.
You can read this issue of CIT Infobits on the Web at
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitapr05.html.
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Teaching, Teaching Technologies, and Views of Knowledge
Laptops in the Classroom
New E-Journal on Learning and Evaluation
In Defense of Cheating
Read Email, Lose IQ Points?
New Weblog on Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Recommended Reading
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TEACHING, TEACHING TECHNOLOGIES, AND VIEWS OF KNOWLEDGE
In "Teaching as Performance in the Electronic Classroom" (FIRST MONDAY,
vol. 10, no. 4, April 2005), Doug Brent, professor in the Faculty of
Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary, presents two
views of teaching: teaching as a "performance" and teaching as a
transfer of knowledge through text, a "thing." He discusses the social
groups that have stakes in each view and how teaching will be affected
by the view and group that gains primacy. "If the group that values
teaching as performance has the most influence, we will put more energy
into developing flexible courseware that promotes social engagement and
interaction. . . . If the group that sees teaching as textual [i.e., a
thing] has the most influence, we will develop more elaborate
technologies for delivering courses as online texts, emphasising the
role of the student as audience rather than as participant." Brent's
paper is available online at
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/brent/index.html.
First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose
aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global
information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the
University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more
information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor,
PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv@xxxxxxx; Web:
http://firstmonday.dk/.
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LAPTOPS IN THE CLASSROOM
The theme for the latest issue of NEW DIRECTIONS FOR TEACHING AND
LEARNING (vol. 2005, issue 101, Spring 2005) is "Enhancing Learning
with Laptops in the Classroom." Centered on the faculty development
program at Clemson University, the issue's purpose is "to show that
university instructors can and do make pedagogically productive and
novel use of laptops in the classroom" and "to advise institutional
leaders on how to make a laptop mandate successful at their
university." The publication is available online
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/86011233.
New Directions for Teaching and Learning [ISSN: 0271-0633], a quarterly
journal published by Wiley InterScience, offers a "comprehensive range
of ideas and techniques for improving college teaching based on the
experience of seasoned instructors and on the latest findings of
educational and psychological researchers." The journal is available
both in print and online formats.
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NEW E-JOURNAL ON LEARNING AND EVALUATION
STUDIES IN LEARNING, EVALUATION, INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT is a new
peer-reviewed electronic journal that "supports emerging scholars and
the development of evidence-based practice and that publishes research
and scholarship about teaching and learning in formal, semi-formal and
informal educational settings and sites." Papers in the current issue
include:
"Can Students Improve Performance by Clicking More? Engaging Students
Through Online Delivery" by Jenny Kofoed
"Managing Learner Interactivity: A Precursor to Knowledge Exchange" by
Ken Purnell, Jim Callan, Greg Whymark and Anna Gralton
"Online Learning Predicates Teamwork: Collaboration Underscores Student
Engagement" by Greg Whymark, Jim Callan and Ken Purnell
Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development [ISSN
1832-2050] will be published at least once a year by the LEID
(Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development) Centre, Division of
Teaching and Learning Services, Central Queensland University,
Rockhampton, Queensland 4702 Australia. For more information contact:
Patrick Danaher, tel: +61-7-49306417; email: p.danaher@xxxxxxxxxxx
Current and back issues are available at
http://www.sleid.cqu.edu.au/index.php.
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IN DEFENSE OF CHEATING
In his article,"In Defense of Cheating" (UBIQUITY, vol. 6, issue 11,
April 5-12, 2005), Donald A. Norman responds to Evan Golub's recent
article on student cheating and counteractive measures (see
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitmar05.html#5). Norman says that
Golub asked the wrong questions in his essay: "How do students cheat?
How can we weed out cheating?" Norman believes the pertinent questions
should be: "What is the purpose of an examination? Why do students
cheat?" He argues that we should rethink the entire purpose of the
examination system. We should encourage students to ask others for help
and then credit them for their help. The essay is available online at
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i11_norman.html.
Ubiquity is a free, Web-based publication of the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM), "dedicated to fostering critical analysis
and in-depth commentary on issues relating to the nature, constitution,
structure, science, engineering, technology, practices, and paradigms
of the IT profession." For more information, contact: Ubiquity, email:
ubiquity@xxxxxxx; Web: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/.
For more information on the ACM, contact: ACM, One Astor Plaza, 1515
Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA; tel: 800-342-6626 or 212-626-0500;
Web: http://www.acm.org/.
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READ EMAIL, LOSE IQ POINTS?
On April 22, 2005, several newswire services and newspapers reported on
the results of clinical trials commissioned by Hewlett-Packard and
conducted by Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at King's College London
University. Wilson monitored the IQs of 80 British adults and found
that "the IQ of those who tried to juggle messages and work fell by 10
points -- the equivalent to missing a whole night's sleep and more than
double the 4-point fall seen after smoking marijuana." The constant
shifting of focus required by compulsively checking and responding to
email "tired and slowed down the brain." A separate survey of 1,100
people found that most workers checked email outside of work hours and
during vacations, and that they responded to an email within an hour of
receiving it. Wilson said these email addiction practices "will damage
a worker's performance by reducing their mental sharpness," and his
advice is to "control technology rather than let it control you." A
Hewlett-Packard UK press release on the study is available at
http://h41131.www4.hp.com/uk/en/pr/UKen22042005142004.html.
David M. Levy, professor at the University of Washington's Information
School, says "We're losing touch with the contemplative roots of
scholarship, the reflective dimension . . . . When you think that
universities are meant to be in effect the think tanks for the culture,
or at least one of the major forms of thinking, that strikes me as a
very serious concern." He and others studying the problem of
information overload caused by email, blogs, and websites say they are
not against the technologies but worry that these tools could have a
negative impact on scholarly research. More can be read in "Knowing
When to Log Off" by Jeffrey Young (THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION,
vol. 51, issue 33, p. A34, April 22, 2005).
The article is available online to Chronicle subscribers at
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i33/33a03401.htm.
The Chronicle of Higher Education [ISSN 0009-5982] is published weekly
by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc., 1255 Twenty-third Street,
NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA; tel: 202-466-1000; fax: 202-452-1033;
Web: http://chronicle.com/.
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NEW WEBLOG ON SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
Charles W. Bailey, Jr., compiler of SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
BIBLIOGRAPHY (now in its 57th edition), has a new publication.
DigitalKoans is a weblog that provides commentary on scholarly
electronic publishing and digital culture issues. It is available at
http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/.
Since 2001, Bailey has also published another weblog, The Scholarly
Electronic Weblog, an exhaustive compilation of citations to articles
dealing with all aspects of scholarly communication. The weblog is
online at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is a searchable resource
that cites selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other
sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic
publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. The latest
version is available at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html.
Bailey is the Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and
Development at the University of Houston Libraries. In 1989, Bailey
established PACS-L, a mailing list about public-access computers in
libraries, and The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, one of the
first scholarly electronic journals published on the Internet. For more
information, contact Charles W. Bailey, Jr., University of Houston,
Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX
77204-2000 USA; tel: 713-743-9804; fax: 713-743-9811; email:
cbailey@xxxxxx; Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm.
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RECOMMENDED READING
"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or
that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or
useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits
subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@xxxxxxx for
possible inclusion in this column.
Learning and Training Professionals: What Keeps YOU Up at Night?
Edited by Edward Masie
The Masie Center, 2005
http://www.masie.com/upatnight/
The free ebook has 672 contributions that will give you a global
perspective of what your colleagues are facing as their daily
challenges. The twelve chapters include: Learning Management Systems,
Metrics, and Technical Requirements.
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