Leaving the safe harbour

repositioning the University of Maribor Library in the LMS

Dunja Legat (Author), Miloš Petrovič (Author)

Abstract

The University of Maribor's strategy up to 2020 is also to increase usage of its learning management system(LMS), Moodle. With the incorporation of different library tools into Moodle, the Library intends to support the University's strategy, and with this one step also encourage the use of library resources as well as subject librarians' support. To access library services through the website is not enough nowadays, and so the Library wishes to achieve more effective, time-saving and onsite instruction support in the centre of the students' e-learning space Moodle. The whole idea is to integrate the functionalities of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), LibGuides and subject librarian support into the University LMS, with the goal of empowering the relationship between students, teachers and librarians. To examine these functionalities of the entire concept, we have incorporated EDS plug-in into the administrative level of the LMS Moodle to help the teaching staff prepare reading lists directly connected to library resources. The advantage is that neither the teachers nor the students have to leave the Moodle environment. For the incorporation of the LibGuides into the Moodle, we used LibGuides API that can be integrated into the Moodle by the teacher's request. We will use the regular course at the University of Maribor as a show ase and test the usability of our approach with the student survey.

Keywords

visokošolske knjižnice;učenje na daljavo;e-učenje;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2014
Source:	Riga
Typology:	3.15 - Unpublished Conference Contribution
Organization:	UM - University of Maribor
UDC:	027.8:028
COBISS:	78975489
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