I am not sure if Lisa or Karen posted the presentation on the Community home page but enjoyed looking at it and seeing that our jobs will become more important and interesting. I assume that some of you who saw the presentation are like me, still clueless on the issue and left with more questions than answers. The presentation packs a lot interesting and alarming data. I say alarming because I am not sure what it all really means, but at the same time I am certain that we are indeed in the middle of some huge changes in eLearning.
What are for example: Synthetic, Semantic, and Pragmatic webs? One chart explains that synthetic web or Web 1.0 connects information, Semantic web is the Web 2.0 with which we are now familiar connects people, and the Pragmatic web, which is Web 3.O connects knowledge. What does all this mean to us at CCCO?
With so many changes in technology we also encounter new terms we probably need to understand. Reading an article by Alan W. Aldrich titled “Universities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web” found in the Educause archives, I came across a couple of other new terms and concepts that we may need to use. For example, there is the notion of analog orientation versus digital orientation. Aldrich states that analog access is the kind of linear access that we have of information when we are using our computers (I wouldn’t have thought this is linear access) and digital access is the kind of access you have to information from the mobile web.
Aldrich explains further that extensive online research using library resources such as locating information, patron-borrowing and accessing the library catalog constitute sustained research and thus analog access to information. On the other hand, a quick look at the library catalog and the journal finder to see if later one can get to the computer to do more in depth research, constitutes digital access, meaning that this is fast, ubiquitous, decontextualized access to information.
Back to the presentation posted on the home page, could we say this is digital access to information? I venture to say yes if we follow Aldrich’s model. The question for CCCO faculty is: should we search for context and nuance on our own or is this enough information for now?
I would like to read your comments and perceptions about mobile web or the notions of digital vs. analog access.
~Carol
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I have not read this article yet but certainly will. On a related topic, I have started to purge reference books in my home. When I want to know something, like how to grow tomatoes, I look it up online. My attempt is to save clutter in my own home.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the article again?
ReplyDeleteMary, I was commenting on the video that was in the Community Home page. It is not there anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe Aldrich article is linked in the blog.
Thanks for your response.