Libraries left off of "Top 100 Tools for Learning" list

From: B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_nyob> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:17:08 -0700 To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu

  Interesting blurb from Brock Read at the Chronicle of Higher Education:

  http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2288

  Basically there are no library tools on The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ list of Top 100 Tools for Learning. I think that the suggestion that libraries have "bad tools" is pertinent to our discussion...

  Steven Bell suggests at ACRLog (http://tinyurl.com/2rxvmk) that it may be "a case of our failing to create awareness about these resources to the faculty and researchers who should identify them as valuable e-learning resources."

  But Read (referring to comments by Stephen Downes, a senior researcher for Canada’s National Research Council) suggests that perhaps "the lack of library services on the list could be evidence of bad tools, not a lack of publicity."

  Bernie Sloan

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