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Sophia For Teachers THIS ISSUE h ps://www.sophia.org Library Supports Distance Ed. P.1-2 What is it? Quality Matters P.2-3 Sophia is a complete online edu‐ ca onal resource offering mul ‐ ple tutorials on STEM subjects.
There are also links that use online learning that offer college credit sponsored by Capella Uni‐ versity ($329). Sophia offers free flipped class Library Aims To Support Distance Learning professional development en‐ dorsed by Capella University and Wri en by Marsha Miller created in collabora on with The ISU Library’s mission regarding distance and ebrary. If instructors would like to their School of Educa on faculty. learning support: It is the responsibility of recommend purchase of e‐books, they can There are series of tutorials for Indiana State University Library to provide send Marsha a tle and an ISBN (or electronic online classroom use. Users can access to library materials and databases to ISU ISBN or Amazon link) for considera on to also create their own series of students no ma er where they take a course. purchase. Marsha also plans to increase e‐ tutorials, playlists, or groups. We also have an obliga on to support distance book holdings on distance learning pedagogies. instructors. With that in mind, Marsha Miller, Finding e‐books is as simple as using the one of the Reference Instruc on Librarians, is Library’s online catalog [Fusion, available at serving as the distance How can it benefit faculty? h p://fusion.indstate.edu]. E learning support ‘point “Finding E‐books is as simple as using ‐books will be listed along SOPHIA is a first‐of‐its‐kind person’. You and your with other library materials. students receive the Library’s online catalog [Fusion, social educa on pla orm cre‐ ISU users need to follow the periodic e‐mails from available at h ://fusion.indstate.edu].” ated to reach 21st century links to ISU copies her and she is also in students: digital na ves who specifically, not e‐books charge of the Distance grew up with Facebook, Wik‐ listed as being in the other Extravaganza that co‐exists with the on‐campus ipedia and YouTube in a highly libraries included in Fusion. An alterna ve to Library Extravaganza each year. interac ve and personalized using Fusion is to start with the Library’s The main access point to the Library’s Electronic Resources portal [available at h p:// digital world. Sophia is fo‐ distance learning support is one of the Library’s library.indstate.edu/eresources.html]. cused on le ng people share LibGuides [library research guides], located at Users can set up parameters using the gold their knowledge by crea ng h p://libguides.indstate.edu/distancelearning. ‐colored search box to search for e‐books. lesson packets that are then You may wish to add a Blackboard ‘Content’ However, you can only search by words in a bu on directly to this site for you and your made available to all. These tle, not subject, table of contents, etc. lesson packets can include students. Marsha has just started building a everything from text and im‐ separate ‘page’ [tab], “Distance Instructor Once an e‐book is found, can you open it, link ages to videos and audio clips Support”. to it, assign a chapter to be read by students? How many people can open found on sites like Wikipedia, While the Library has had electronic publica ons for the e‐book simultaneously?— YouTube and Facebook. years, most of those were Con nued on page 2... Instructors could create lesson electronic Reference books. Now the Library is purchasing packets using SOPHIA and link from Blackboard. more e‐books, from Ebscohost
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h p:// www.khanacademy.org/ Can an e‐book be ‘checked out’? Do you need to download addi onal so ware? Can you read it on an e‐reader What is it? [e.g. Kindle or Nook], or do you have to Sal Khan, former hedge fund read it on your PC? What about an analyst and creator of the iPad? Can you ‘save’ a favorite e‐book in nonprofit Khan Academy, has within Ebscohost or ebrary on an e‐ made over 2,700 free bookshelf? Can you print? How do you educa onal videos and aims to cite? So many ques ons! con nue un l the day he dies. Now that the Library has more than Hoping to make several tens of 100,000 e‐books, more and more people segment has a permanent URL you can thousands of videos available are curious. The Library has the answers add to your Blackboard site. can send in nearly every subject, Khan to some of these ques ons in a your students a link to a Playlist or just Academy currently covers K‐12 add the link to your Blackboard site. math, and science topics like document, “e‐Books @ ISU: what, where, how”, which is available within What about embedding a film or biology, chemistry, cosmology, segment? Is it the same as embedding astronomy, and physics. The several of the LibGuides, including the YouTube or other publicly available site also dabbles in finance Distance Learning >> Distance Instructor and history, and a recent Support page. If issues arise with e‐books, media? Yes and no. As with our other ISU‐ partnership with Smarthistory contact Marsha at only subscrip on‐based resources, off‐ added hundreds of art history [email protected] so she can campus users must authen cate access. videos to the library. The inves gate. A Blackboard link to a Films on content is made in "diges ble What about streaming media? The Demand or segment URL by a distance 10 to 20 minute chunks," and Library subscribes to Films on Demand. students are encouraged to learner will first open the proxy server complete prac ce exercises You can find this listed on the A‐Z page. Users must enter their ISU ID and and assessments. The videos databases list [h p:// password to con nue. Though the are done in a conversa onal library.indstate.edu/databases]. If you process differs from embedding publicly style, taking a different want to create a link to this database, available media, Blackboard is also equally approach to math and science copy the shortcut on the A‐Z page; don’t as capable of embedding a Films on instruc on than most are used copy the URL a er you have opened Demand film. to. Films on Demand. Each complete film or
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