There have been repeated calls for the development of a smart catalog of off-campus or distance learning courses and their relation to degree programs at institutions of Higher Education. First, student groups read news items on the World Wide Web selected for relevance to current course topics. These items include editorial comments with links to high-quality web sites, and questions designed to elicit critical thinking about social, environmental and economic issues related to chemistry. Second, these same groups design and construct their own news item, including an actual online news article relevant to organic chemistry, with editorial comments and critical thinking questions.
Projects are peer-reviewed by other class members.
This session briefly reviews the background of the consortium and provides the current status of the project to link the library collections of 49 Missouri higher education institutions. In addition, it illustrates through statistics and anecdotes how the CLP is helping libraries meet the needs of all their students with dramatically faster and easier interlibrary loan. None of them have the versatility, flexibility, or ease of use necessary for easy integration into courses by faculty. Participants will learn about the custom software developed by the Office of Instructional Technology at Southeast Missouri State in response to this need. Through demonstration and discussion, participants will learn how the programs operate and how their products are used.