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Workshop A
Construction of Knowledge – innovative use of e-learning and blended learning in
information literacy education
Niels Jørgen Blaabjerg, MSc (Economics)
Thomas Vibjerg Hansen, MA (Communication)
Bo Hvass Pedersen, Librarian, D.B.
Duration: One 3 hour session
Short description:
The organizers of this workshop are development consultants at Aalborg University
Library, Aalborg University, Denmark. Having different backgrounds, educations and
profiles, they will present different aspects of multimedia development, implementation
and deployment. They have been working with E-learning and multimedia development
since 1999.
The workshop proposes to engage participants in reflection and discussions about choices
of pedagogy in e-learning and blended learning environments. Participants will be
actively engaged in the learning process in the workshop and they will enter in a dialogue
with the other participants and the organizers.
Our point of departure is the development, implementation and deployment of an
innovative e-learning program/multimedia system; SWIM (Streaming Webbased
Information Modules). This is a case study of how an organization has changed due to a
paradigm shift in the perception of the library’s use of pedagogy in the services provided
for the user. The user and her situation is in fact the starting point for all activities and
services, hence the facilitation of her learning process is the basis for the provision of
counseling and other services and activities. Following the increasing use of problem
orientated learning and problem based learning pedagogy, we have applied a pedagogical
approach to the use of information which matches this pedagogy. This approach is based
on the information searching processes found in Kuhlthau [1993, 2004] and has become
operationalized in this specific multimedia system.
We will discuss the changing environment in the surrounding world, at universities and
other educational institutions which has influence on the libraries’ role as service
providers. The prevailing image of libraries is that they tend to move towards becoming
hybrid libraries, merging the physical and virtual/digital library. We will discuss how this
has influenced the role of libraries and which services libraries can provide in this setting.
We will discuss how libraries’ roles change and focus on how they can react to rapid
changes in technology and paradigm shifts in due time and how they can be proactive and
innovative. In a world where change is a fundamental condition, we will focus on the
adequate and required qualifications expected of students and librarians in the new
learning environments and in working environments.
Participants will gain insight and inspiration for implementing an e-learning and blended
learning program. We will present a case study of the distribution of the program to a
foreign organization and how the implementation has been organized in international
cooperation between a Norwegian and a Danish university library
Information about the development concept and the use of the multimedia concept in
various scenarios can be found at this web address: http://www.swiminfo.dk
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