Information literacy evaluation: moving towards virtual learning environments

Incidental Learning in 3D Virtual Environments: Relationships to Learning Style, Digital Literacy and Information Display

With teachers taking more interest in utilizing 3D virtual environments for educational purposes, research is needed to understand how learners perceive and process information within virtual environments (Eschenbrenner, Nah, & Siau, 2008). In this study, the authors sought to determine if learning style or digital literacy predict incidental learning, that is, learning that occurs without lear...

The Global Media and Information Literacy Week: Moving Towards MIL Cities

3D virtual worlds as environments for literacy learning

Background Although much has been written about the ways in which new technology might transform educational practice, particularly in the area of literacy learning, there is relatively little empirical work that explores the possibilities and problems or even what such a transformation might look like in the classroom. 3D virtual worlds offer a range of opportunities for children to use digita...

Towards Semantic Virtual Environments

The vision of a global cyberspace has inspired a lot of research in the field of Virtual Environments. However, virtual environments today remain island solutions, due to a diversity of incompatible data and protocol designs. In this paper we introduce the concept of Semantic Virtual Environments (SVE), a scalable approach to this problem, based on the W3C Resource Description Framework. SVE pr...

Evaluation of e-learning course Information literacy for medical students

Purpose – The main goal of this article is to describe and to evaluate the results of evaluation of the e-learning course Information literacy which is taught by the librarians at the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University. In the article the results are discussed to inform about the librarians experience with tutoring the course. Design/methodology/approach – The survey has covered the medica...