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Research Libraries Group Advisory Group for Instructional Technology
Final Report January 2005
See the final report : "Out of the Database, into the Classroom: Final Report from the Instructional Technology Advisory Group" in RLG Focus.Update May 1, 2004
See the report : "Out of the Database, into the Classroom: Findings from the Instructional Technology Advisory Group" in RLG Focus.
In an increasingly web- and technology-savvy world, there is greater demand for seamless integration of electronic resources into university teaching and learning toolkits. In response to this demand, Research Libraries Group (RLG) is forming an Advisory Group for Instructional Technology. This advisory group, composed of campus experts, will come together to explore and share experiences around instructional technology. Concretely, the group will investigate how materials can be transferred from the RLG Cultural Materials system into software systems which support teaching and learning.
Because RLG Cultural Materials contains authenticated, rights-cleared, high-quality digital representations of primary source materials, the group will focus its efforts and discussion around that service. The findings of the group will be of broad interest to anyone striving to integrate licensed resources with local tools, and both conclusions and recommendations will be of enough general interest to share widely with the community.
RLG will be conducting informal interviews with faculty who use digital images in the classroom. Based on input from faculty discussions and the advisory group members' own experiences, the group will identify the best strategies to ensure that RLG Cultural Materials and other RLG on-line services are optimized for use in the classroom, for reserves, and for student research. The group will identify preferred file formats for exchanging images and metadata from licensed resources with local instructional technology tools such as MDID, Insight or the ubiquitous PowerPoint.
The advisory group includes representation from University of Toronto, James Madison University, Penn State University, Brigham Young University, Cornell University, and Stanford University. For a complete roster of participants and contact information for the RLG liaisons for the group, please see: http://www.rlg.org/culturalres/advgroups.html#instruction.
Christina B. Updike
Visual Resources Specialist
School of Art and Art History
James Madison University
February 23, 2004
