eLearning and Digital Publishing

by Hsianghoo Steve Ching (Editor), Paul W.T. Poon (Editor), Carmel Mc Naught (Editor)

Overview

eLearning and Digital Publishing will occupy a unique niche in the literature accessed by library and publishing specialists, and by university teachers and planners. It examines the interfaces between the work done by four groups of university staff who have been in the past quite separate from, or only marginally related to, each other—library staff, university teachers, university policy makers, and staff who work in university publishing presses. All four groups are directly and intimately connected with the main functions of universities—the creation, management and dissemination of knowledge in a scholarly and reflective manner.

This book provides a framework which clearly portrays the relationships between information literacy, eLearning and digital publishing. The structure of the book has three main sections: the first has primarily an educational focus, the second a focus on digital publishing, and the third builds on the first two sections to examine overall implications for the growth of knowledge and scholarly communication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402036408
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	04/28/2006
Series:	Computer Supported Cooperative Work , #33
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Issues in Organizing and Disseminating Knowledge in the 21st Century.- Issues in Organizing and Disseminating Knowledge in the 21st Century.- Focus on eLearning and Distributed Education.- The Provision of Non-Local Programmes in Hong Kong: The Experience of the Open University of Hong Kong.- The Synergy between Information Literacy and eLearning.- Changing the Mindset: From Traditional On-Campus and Distance Education to Online Teaching and Learning.- Developing and Managing a Professional Development Distance-Learning Programme: The ARL/OLMS Online Lyceum.- Learning to Learn in Networked Environments: A Focus on ‘Orientation’.- Focus on Digital Publishing and Electronic Content.- Trends in Electronic Publishing.- ‘Copy and Paste’ or Scholarly Communication? Changing the Balance Point.- Believing Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Electronic Resource Collection Management in a Consortial Environment.- Implications for the Growth of Knowledge and Scholarly Communication.- Digital Publishing and the Konwledge Process.- Development of, and Trends in, Scholarly Communication in China.- Global Changes in Scholarly Communication.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The book’s three main parts provide a framework that points out the relationships between information literacy, e-learning, and digital publishing. … I think anyone who wants to deploy modern publishing and learning projects at his or her university will find useful information in this book. … The book will appeal to a range of professionals who work in higher education libraries, university teachers, university policy makers, and staff who work in university publishing presses wishing to understand others experiences." (Patriciu Victor-Valeriu, Computing Reviews, December, 2006)

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