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

Considering that "the written word" is tied with Twitter for 48th place,
I'd say it's a pretty questionable list.  Besides which, most of those
tools aren't "tools for learning" per se, they're just tools.  It
appears the compilers of the list may have been as well...;)


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Andrew Ashton
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Subject: [NGC4LIB] Libraries left off of "Top 100 Tools for Learning"
list

  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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