http:www.lolaexchange.org

1
http//www.lolaexchange.org
2

• Thanks to
• Davis Education Foundation
• NITLE (National Institute for Technology and
  Liberal Education)
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (CTW Information
  Literacy Project)
• Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash
  College

3
"It took only twenty five years for the overhead
projector to make it from the bowling alley to
the classroom. I'm optimistic about academic
computing I've begun to see computers in bowling
alleys." --George Landow Hypertext The
convergence of contemporary critical theory and
technology, 1991
4
(No Transcript)
5

• Production of learning objects
• who makes them?
• how do they make them?
• Discovery of learning objects
• how do people find them?
• how do people evaluate them?
• Use of learning objects
• how do they get used?
• do they improve (liberal arts) education?

6

• What is a learning object?
• http//learningobjects.wesleyan.edu

7
(No Transcript)
8
Editorial Evaluation
LoLa
InfoLit
Final metadata
contributorsubmits
Yes!
managing editorroutes
Music
No!
General
Other
9
Cataloging and Evaluation Details

• Information Literacy, Music, and General
  Editorial Boards in place
• Planning for formation of additional editorial
  boards
• Cataloger from MITs OpenCourseware project
  adding materials to be evaluated (1,000 by
  January 2005)

10
Next Steps Evaluating Proposals
Proposal Evaluation
Production
InfoLit
Proposal
Yes!
managing editorroutes
Music
No!
General
Other
11
(No Transcript)
12
LoLa Architecture Data Perspective
Google scholar
Merlot
dspace
WorldCat
lola
oai
metalib
blackboard
13
LoLa Architecture One (Future) User Perspective
Google scholar
merlot
worldcat
Coursemanagementsystem
Federated search (metalib)
lola
14

• Over the last decade, American higher education
  has created a doughnut IT infrastructure all
  periphery and no center. We have invested in the
  machinery but not in the teachers and the
  scholars to make that machinery worthwhile in the
  classroom and in scholarship. The massive
  investment in networks and computers will not pay
  off until we fill in the hole, until we work
  together to create content.
• From Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped
  (Yet)By Edward L. Ayers and Charles M. Grisham
  EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 38, no. 6
  (November/December 2003) 4051.

15
http//www.academiccommons.org
16
Things You Might Do Next

• Add your learning objects to LoLa
• Join Academic Commons and contribute materials
• Point your federated search engine of choice at
  LoLa (instructions to be posted on LoLa
  website)
• Use Information Literacy modules in your
  instruction program
• Document HOW you used these modules

17

• Michael Roymichael.roy_at_wesleyan.edu
• These slides at http//mroy.web.wesleyan.edu/talk
  s/ctlibraries-october05/