cb jan-2015
TRANSCRIPT
Silos Upon Silos
• Discovery services help bring together the data in a variety of information silos (individual databases)
• However, the library itself can seem to be a silo on campus, separate from where the majority of teaching and learning happens
Classrooms
Library
Where the Teaching and Learning Happens
• In the chat, briefly describe the steps an instructor would have to take to assign a reading out of the library’s collection to her students.
When assigning readings,instructors will
copy links that expire, break, or they encounter copyright issues
hosting PDF documents
Goals of Curriculum Builder
• Make is easy to use library materials appropriately in online course spaces– No more permalinking!– No more copyright issues!
• Increase visibility of library resource in the digital classroom– Better statistics, too!
Live Demonstration
• Current Curriculum Builder Features– Demo in Canvas
• Coming end of Spring 2015– Demo in Moodle
How to Get It
• Self Hosted– Code for Curriculum Builder posted to EDS Wiki– Requires someone who can and will manage a PHP/MySQL
application– Requires server space with appropriate configuration (*AMP
stack)– Little to No Technical Support
• Perfect for libraries already doing this type of thing
How to Get It
• In EBSCO’s Cloud– We provide you with a Welcome Letter that gives
your LMS administrator the details she needs– We provide an up-time guarantee, HTTPS support,
backup of reading lists– Full technical support
• Contact your local sales representative, or email us at [email protected]