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    Bringing hidden treasures to light: illuminating DSpace
    SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY ; Horwood, L. ; Garner, J. ; Young, E. ( 2004)
    The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) has gained momentum since eprints.org was released in2000. An alternative to eprints.org is the recently released DSpace, the open source software developed at MIT. The paper will trace the history and development of DSpace initiatives, such as the joint project between MIT and University of Cambridge. It also discusses the impact and benefits of repositories for research institutions and libraries.
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    Constructing Information Literacy: A Vygotskian approach
    Lazarow, Ms Melanie (Central Queensland University Press, 2004)
    The prominent educational theories of Vygotsky have just entered the discipline of information literacy. I will concentrate on three of his themes: the dialectical interdependence of the environment and the self, the need to relate to a student’s potential rather than their achievement, and the inadequacy of most current measures of information literacy.
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    Courseware design and development program: providing professional development and project experience.
    HIRST, DAVID ; BROOKS, CLAIRE ; RIDDLE, MATTHEW ( 2004)
    The Courseware Design and Development Program enables academics to participate in a program that integrates a major curriculum development project along with professional development. In its short history, the Courseware Design and Development Program has demonstrated itself to be a sustainable model. It is a model that fulfils a role of encouraging innovation in teaching and learning using technology. The integration of professional development and project development seems to appeal to otherwise busy academics as there are concrete goals and positive outcomes.
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    A layered approach to the re-use of content and its presentation
    CANALE, ENRICO ; Ip, Albert ( 2004)
    This paper deals with techniques for overcoming the mosaic effect - an impediment to the sharing of content, and proposes layered re-use as a conceptual framework for solving the problem. The mosaic effect occurs when a course is built by sequencing Shareable Content Objects (SCOs) from a variety of independent sources. Because SCOs have their own individual "look and feel", courses made up of SCOs from different sources suffer from inconsistent presentation styles and interfaces in the format of the learning content. To overcome the mosaic effect, it is necessary to separate content from its presentation. Two techniques have been put forward as solutions to the mosaic effect in the SCORM environment. The first is the Dynamic Appearance Model (DAM) and the second is SCORM with Style-Sheet Support (SCORM-SSS). While the DAM proposes content to be encoded in XML and uses XSL transformations for correct rendering, SCORM-SSS is based on content in HTML and proposes course related style-sheets to ensure the desired course presentation. This paper develops the concept of layered re-use in which the re-use of content and content structures is governed by specifications appropriate to the content level (e.g. SCORM, IMS QTI specifications) and the re-use of" look and feel" properties and their application throughout a course is governed by HTML-based specifications applied at the display level. In layered re-use terms, for any one course there may be many content models within the content layer and for a particular user or cohort there is a single display model. The advantages of adopting layered re-use include, a) ease of technical implementation (at scale and wide scope), b) low impact on course development work-flows, c) ease of maintenance against growing complexity in course design and re-design and d) it supports the DAM and SCORM-SSS developments as complementary approaches to overcoming the mosaic effect.
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    New models of research publishing
    SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY ; HORWOOD, LYNNE ( 2004)
    New models of research publication have been developing in recent years. Examples include the open access journal model (such as BioMed Central (BMC) and Public Library of Science (PLoS), and growth in number and content of institutional and subject based repositories. The paper discusses features of both open access journal publishing and eprint models. The paper also discusses the promotional efforts of library staff. The paper concludes with a brief case study where library staff undertook a range of activities to stimulate academic interest in new publishing models.