eLearning and Digital Publishing

Carmel McNaught, Paul W. T. Poon, Hsianghoo Steve Ching (auth.), Hsianghoo Steve Ching, Paul W. T. Poon, Carmel McNaught (eds.)9781402036408, 1-4020-3640-X, 1402036515, 9781402036514

eLearning and Digital Publishing will occupy a unique niche in the literature accessed by library and publishing specialists, and by university teachers and planners. It examines the interfaces between the work done by four groups of university staff who have been in the past quite separate from, or only marginally related to, each other—library staff, university teachers, university policy makers, and staff who work in university publishing presses. All four groups are directly and intimately connected with the main functions of universities—the creation, management and dissemination of knowledge in a scholarly and reflective manner.

This book provides a framework which clearly portrays the relationships between information literacy, eLearning and digital publishing. The structure of the book has three main sections: the first has primarily an educational focus, the second a focus on digital publishing, and the third builds on the first two sections to examine overall implications for the growth of knowledge and scholarly communication.

Table of contents :
Issues in Organizing and Disseminating Knowledge in the 21 st Century….Pages 1-10
Front Matter….Pages 11-11
The Provision of Non-Local Programmes in Hong Kong: The Experience of the Open University of Hong Kong….Pages 13-28
The Synergy between Information Literacy and eLearning….Pages 29-43
Changing the Mindset: From Traditional On-Campus and Distance Education to Online Teaching and Learning….Pages 45-67
Developing and Managing a Professional Development Distance-Learning Programme: The ARL/OLMS Online Lyceum….Pages 69-88
Learning to Learn in Networked Environments: A Focus on ‘Orientation’….Pages 89-107
Front Matter….Pages 109-109
Trends in Electronic Publishing….Pages 111-131
‘Copy and Paste’ or Scholarly Communication? Changing the Balance Point….Pages 133-149
Believing Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Electronic Resource Collection Management in a Consortial Environment….Pages 151-171
Front Matter….Pages 173-173
Digital Publishing and the Konwledge Process….Pages 175-193
Development of, and Trends in, Scholarly Communication in China….Pages 195-219
Global Changes in Scholarly Communication….Pages 221-240