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Tri-State College Library Cooperative Spring Conference, American College, Bryn Mawr, PA, April 24th 2007
The Virtual Learning Commons
Moving Towards a ‘Grand Good Place’
by Mark D. PuterbaughInformation Services Librarian
Eastern University, Warner Memorial Library, St. Davids, PA
A Place where everyone know your name!
Distance Education/Reference and Life on the Internet
• Lack of interaction• Social process• Social presence• Quality of instruction• Quality of reference services support
“The bigger the new world that the Net
opens up, the lonelier it is.”
Park Sang-woo, The World of Internet Games, Koreana 16 no4 38-41 Wint 2002
The Case of Eastern University
• Nearly half of the student population are either distance learners or commuters
• Student and faculty found in varied locations within the United States
• Growing population of students found in international sites.
The Case of Eastern University
Our students are found in:
• South Africa, • Brazil, • Thailand, • Romania• China • Ghana,
• Ecuador, • Peru, • Costa Rica, and the • Philippines• India• South Korea • Austria
A Global Community
• How do we provide services?• How do we do academic support?• How do we do research instruction?• How do we do reference?
Web 2.0 The Social Web
• Wikis• Blogs• Social Search
Engines
• RSS feeds• Instant Messaging• Meetups /social
networking• Online social
gaming
The Virtual Learning CommonsA place in cyber space to bring together all the
University’s online resources
• Blackboard• E-journals• E-books• Distance learning• Distance reference
The Virtual Learning CommonsA place in cyberspace to build a community
A Place for On-line Classes
A Place for Library Services
A Place to Access E-Resources
A Place to Meet Friends and Colleagues
A Place to Grow Community
“Increased user contribution leads to the growth of “collective intelligence” and reusable dynamic content. Such engagement with content promotes a sense of community, empowerment, and ownership for users”
Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Steve Wheeler (2007) The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education 1 Health Information and Libraries Journal 24 (1), 2–23. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00701.x
VBI Phase IV
A year long experiment that opened VBI to the community!
•Student workers
•Volunteers
•Alumnae
•Librarians
•Faculty
•International Friends
Mandi’s Place
Fred’s Place
Kristin’s Place
Matt’s Place
Teresa’s Place
Ted’s Place
Mi Young’s Place
Fran’s Place
Main Street