Browsing by Author "Schafer, Steve"
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The Athabasca University Digital Reading Room: Library resources for mobile students
McGreal, Rory; Tin, Tony; Cheung, Billy; Schafer, Steve (IADIS, 2005-06)This project has been designed to test the boundaries of Mlearning and to begin to build a platform for AU to raise an effective m-library. Building on the research conducted in Canada and abroad, the researchers are ... -
The Athabasca University edusource Project: Building An Accessible Learning Object Repository
Anderson, Terry; Cleveland-Innes, Martha; McGreal, Rory; Friesen, Norman; Ally, Mohamed; Graham, Rodger; Tin, Tony; Moisey, Susan D.; Petrinjak, Anita; Schafer, Steve (Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005)Athabasca University - Canada's Open University (AU) made the commitment to put all of its courses online as part of its Strategic University Plan. In pursuit of this goal, AU participated in the eduSource project, a ... -
Create mobile content using a mobile-friendly knowledge management system: The Athabasca University experience
Ally, Mohamed; Schafer, Steve; Guangbing, Yang; Geng, Hongxing; Tin, Tony; Elliott, Colin (m-Libraries 2009, 2009)Very few knowledge management systems are mobile-friendly, resulting in limited access to content through mobile devices. Researchers and developers have put good effort into developing a mobile-friendly knowledge management ... -
Edusource: Canada's Learning Object Repository Network
McGreal, Rory; Anderson, Terry; Babin, Gilbert; Downes, Stephen; Friesen, Norman; Harrigan, Kevin; Hatala, Marek; MacLeod, Doug; Mattson, Mike; Paquette, Gilbert; Richards, Griff; Roberts, Toni; Schafer, Steve (International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2004)An alliance of Canadian Universities and government agencies pooled their resources to establish a network to share and combine Learning Objects from a variety of sources and further develop this technology. In the process, ... -
Implementing Mobile Environments using Learning Objects: The Athabasca University Digital Reading Room
McGreal, Rory; Tin, Tony; Cheung, Billy; Schafer, Steve (2005)This investigation determined some of the better strategies for delivering educational resources to mobile devices from the Digital Reading Room (DRR) and the Athabasca University(AU) library catalogue using AirPac, making ... -
An Investigation of Student Use of the Supplementary Materials List
Schafer, Steve (5th Off-Campus Library Services Conference, 1991-10-30) -
Mobile design: interactive multimedia to support learning and teaching (Workshop)
Ally, Mohamed; Elliott, Colin; Schafer, Steve; Yang, Guangbing; Geng, Hongxing; Tin, Tony; Woodburn, Tracey (m-Libraries 2009, 2009)Aim of the workshop: The Athabasca University Library has developed many mobile friendly websites and features to help our students access resources. These include an autodetect feature which displays either mobile or ... -
Mobile Design: Interactive Multimedia to Support Learning and Teaching" and "Mobile Library: Connecting New Generations of Learners to the Library in the Mobile Age"
Elliott, Colin; Ally, Mohamed; Tin, Tony; Schafer, Steve; Geng, Hongxing (2009-07-21)1. Aim of the workshop: The Athabasca University Library has developed many mobile friendly websites and features to help our students access resources. These include an autodetect feature which displays either mobile or ... -
Mobile library: connecting new generations of learners to the library in the mobile age
Schafer, Steve; Tin, Tony; Elliott, Colin (m-Libraries 2009, 2009)Digital library services delivered through mobile devices can offer flexibility in terms of access and content, increased hands-on experience, and enhanced information and mobile literacy skills of learners. Athabasca ... -
Much Open Online Content (mooc)
Schafer, Steve (2012-10-26)There have been transformations in libraries in at least three areas over the past number of years. First, in the area of service there is a transformation from users coming to the library to a model of the library reaching ... -
Northern Alberta Library and Information Network (NORALINK): Challenges and Highlights of a Collaborative Initiative
Schafer, Steve (Seventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference, 1995-10-25)The concept of the Northern Alberta Library and Information Network (NORALINK)emerged in early 1992, initiated by Athabasca University Library. NORALINK was a response of the Library to two situations. First, a response ... -
Open access archives and repositories
Schafer, Steve; Tin, Tony; Elliott, Colin (Open Access Week 2009, 2009)Governments and research funding organizations are increasingly reluctant to fund research that is not widely distributed and affordable, creating the need for repositories through which scholars can legally distribute ... -
Open Access Archives and Repositories
Schafer, Steve; Tin, Tony; Elliott, Colin (2009-10-23)Governments and research funding organizations are increasingly reluctant to fund research that is not widely distributed and affordable, creating the need for repositories through which scholars can legally distribute ... -
Open Minds Open Access - Conference Presentation
Schafer, Steve (2012-05-11)Digital Collections - What's out there?, How do you find it?, How do you know what you can do with it? This presentation is one of three presentations at the Open Minds Open Access Conference, held on May 10, 2012, at ... -
Student Satisfaction with Library Services: Results of Evaluation Using Focus Groups
Schafer, Steve (Eighth Off-Campus Library Services Conference, 1998-04-22)This paper presents the findings of focus group survey of Athabasca University students. Using teleconference, three sessions with students across Canada were conducted. Students report a high level of statisfaction with ...