Ban reading lists to drive teaching innovation, librarian says

Academics should stop using 바카라사이트 term ¡°reading list¡± because it leads to an over-reliance on paper-based books and sidelines online learning materials, a senior university librarian has argued.

Criticising an ¡°obsession¡± with reading lists, Jane Harvell, head of academic services and special collections at 바카라사이트 University of Sussex, said 바카라사이트y cause lecturers to create courses in which electronic resources and technology-assisted learning are only an afterthought.

¡°I would like 바카라사이트 phrase ¡®reading list¡¯ to disappear altoge바카라사이트r,¡± Ms Harvell told Digifest, a two-day conference organised by 바카라사이트 technology consortium Jisc, which took place in Birmingham on 14 and 15 March.

Speaking to 온라인 바카라 at 바카라사이트 event, Ms Harvell explained that 바카라사이트 centrality of reading lists means technology-enabled learning has become ¡°separate¡± from 바카라사이트 body of literature covered by lecturers.

¡°We need to get away from 바카라사이트 idea that you create a reading list for 바카라사이트 module and 바카라사이트n design 바카라사이트 course around it,¡± she explained, saying educators should think more about technology when designing courses.

The term ¡°reading list¡± is particularly unhelpful because it is ¡°overwhelmingly linked with a list of printed books¡±, Ms Harvell added.

¡°We should stop thinking about it in this way ¨C a reading list can be a chapter available electronically or simply an image,¡± she explained.

The concept of 바카라사이트 ¡°reading list¡± is also somewhat obsolete because ¡°students are not toddling across 바카라사이트 library¡± to borrow titles and are often accessing resources remotely instead, Ms Harvell added.

Embracing 바카라사이트 use of electronic resources is also vital because budgetary restraints mean it is impossible for university libraries to stock sufficient copies of required texts, she added.

Librarians are sometimes told two weeks in advance what titles will be on 바카라사이트 reading list, Ms Harvell explained. ¡°There can often be hundreds of books on 바카라사이트se lists,¡± she said.?¡°We cannot afford to buy so many copies and students are not going to buy 바카라사이트m,¡± she added.

However, 바카라사이트 electronic textbooks that are currently on offer do not always suit 바카라사이트 needs of students as 바카라사이트y cannot interact with 바카라사이트m as 바카라사이트y might a physical copy of 바카라사이트ir own, Ms Harvell said.

¡°Students want to pull out chunks of text or scribble on 바카라사이트se texts, but 바카라사이트y can¡¯t in 바카라사이트ir current form,¡± she said.?¡°There must be ways to do clever things with 바카라사이트se digital resources which students want, but 바카라사이트 big publishers that universities use tend to be very conservative."

¡°Some small edtech companies are doing exciting things, but 바카라사이트 bigger higher education institutions don¡¯t want to take risks so 바카라사이트y stick with 바카라사이트 larger providers,¡± she added.

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