lolaexchange

April 20, 2023

http://www.lolaexchange.org

2 April 20, 2023

Thanks to

Davis Education Foundation

NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (CTW Information Literacy Project)

Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College

3 April 20, 2023

"It took only twenty five years for the overhead projector to make it from the bowling alley to the classroom. I'm optimistic about academic computing; I've begun to see computers in bowling alleys."

--George LandowHypertext: The convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology, 1991

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5 April 20, 2023

Production of learning objects• who makes them?• how do they make them?

Discovery of learning objects• how do people find them?• how do people evaluate them?

Use of learning objects• how do they get used?• do they improve (liberal arts) education?

6 April 20, 2023

What is a learning object?

http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu

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8 April 20, 2023

contributorsubmits managing editor

routes

InfoLit

Music

General

Other

Yes!

No! LoLa

Editorial Evaluation

Finalmetadata

9 April 20, 2023

Cataloging and Evaluation Details

› Information Literacy, Music, and General Editorial Boards in place

› Planning for formation of additional editorial boards

› Cataloger from MIT’s OpenCourseware project adding materials to be evaluated (~1,000 by January 2005)

10 April 20, 2023

Proposalmanaging editor

routes

InfoLit

Music

General

Other

Yes!

No! Production

Proposal Evaluation

Next Steps: Evaluating Proposals

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lola dspace oai

Merlot

WorldCat

metalibblackboard

Google scholar

LoLa Architecture: Data Perspective

13 April 20, 2023

Coursemanagement

system

Federated search (metalib)

merlot

worldcat

lola

Google scholar

LoLa Architecture: One (Future) User Perspective

14 April 20, 2023

Over the last decade, American higher education has created a doughnut IT infrastructure: all periphery and no center. We have invested in the machinery but not in the teachers and the scholars to make that machinery worthwhile in the classroom and in scholarship. The massive investment in networks and computers will not pay off until we fill in the hole, until we work together to create content.

From “Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped (Yet)”By Edward L. Ayers

and Charles M. Grisham EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 38, no. 6

(November/December 2003): 40–51.

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http://www.academiccommons.org

16 April 20, 2023

Things You Might Do Next

1. Add your learning objects to LoLa

2. Join Academic Commons and contribute materials

3. Point your federated search engine of choice at LoLa (instructions to be posted on LoLa website)

4. Use Information Literacy modules in your instruction program

5. Document HOW you used these modules

17 April 20, 2023

› Michael Roymichael.roy@wesleyan.edu

› These slides at http://mroy.web.wesleyan.edu/talks/ctlibraries-october05/