Colleges and universities across the country are feeling pressure from accrediting agencies and others to measure just what it is their students learn. Librarians at Oregon State University saw this as an opportunity to being information literacy into a campus-wide conversation about what all OSU graduates should know. Working directly...
We know students use mobile technologies. We expect they will want to use them more. The mobile landscape is changing fast. But what does this actually mean? How does having constant access affect the ways students use information? This is one of the questions librarians at Oregon State University are...
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Undergraduate
Information
Practices in the
Mobile
Landscape
Anne-MarieDeitering and Margaret Mellinger
Undergraduate students are expected to find, evaluate and use peer-reviewed or scholarly literature, but they rarely learn about the process of creating new knowledge or the roles the literature plays in the work of scholars. A desired outcome of undergraduate education is the understanding that knowledge is created, evolving and...
In schools at every level, teachers and administrators are under pressure to demonstrate how effective they are by showing exactly what it is their students are learning. These pressures have fueled campus-wide assessment efforts at schools across North America. Librarians at Oregon State University saw this as an opportunity to...
We know students use mobile technologies. We expect they will want to use them more. The mobile landscape is changing fast. But what does this actually mean? How does having constant access affect the ways students use information? This is one of the questions librarians at Oregon State University are...
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A Qualitative Study of Undergraduate Information Practices in the Mobile Landscape
Anne-Marie
Once the purview of the geeks and the early adopters, social software applications like blogs and wikis have made their way into the mainstream. And it seems that every day more tools emerge: social bookmarking, citation-sharing, RSS and more. Just keeping abreast of new tools and what they do is...
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2006
Presented by Anne-MarieDeitering and Rachel Bridgewater
April 5, 2006 ◦ Salem, Oregon
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Once the purview of the geeks and the early adopters, social software applications like blogs and wikis have made their way into the mainstream. And it seems that every day more tools emerge: social bookmarking, citation-sharing, RSS and more. Just keeping abreast of new tools and what they do is...
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, Oregon
Anne-MarieDeitering, Oregon State University
Rachel Bridgewater, Washington State University
We know students use mobile technologies. We expect they will want to use them more. The mobile landscape is changing fast. But what does this actually mean? How does having constant access affect the ways students use information? This is one of the questions librarians at Oregon State University are...
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Anne-MarieDeitering, Margaret Mellinger.
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