Blended Learning in a Digital Library Learning Programme

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Author(s): Sirje Virkus (Tallinn University, Estonia)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 12
Source title: Advancing Library Education: Technological Innovation and Instructional Design
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ari Sigal (Catawba Valley Community College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3688-0.ch017

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Library Information Systems

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This chapter introduces a blended learning approach within a joint international Erasmus Mundus master programme on Digital Library Learning (DILL) at the Institute of Information Studies (IIS) of Tallinn University. IIS has experimented with technology-based teaching and learning methods and tools since the early 1990s. The DILL programme has been designed to offer ways to integrate traditional strategies with methods offered by the current technology for teaching and learning. The pedagogic approach used advocates using a variety of technology and media for content delivery, communication, collaboration, and student support to meet the needs of diverse student groups and improve the quality of teaching. The chapter introduces using the virtual learning environment, social media tools, open educational resources, and video interactions with remote experts within this programme. A virtual collaboration initiative (Entrepreneurship Seminar on European Virtual Venturing) between the Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique, Réseaux et Systèmes d'Information (ITIN) in Cergy-Pontoise, France, and IIS in Spring 2010 and 2011 within the Human Resource Management Module of this programme is also considered.

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