Based on 276 responses from academic staff in an evaluation of an online learning environment (OLE), this paper identifies those elements of the OLE that were most used and valued by staff, those elements of the OLE that staff most wanted to see improved, and those factors that most contributed to staff perceptions that the use of the OLE enhanced their teaching. The most used and valued elemen...

Academic self-efficacy has been positively related to academic achievement in previous studies with middle school, high school, and undergraduate students. This small-scale study investigated the relationship between student reading self-efficacy and student reading achievement with second grade students in central Montana. Participating students completed a Reading Self-Efficacy Questionnaire ...

Julie Gilbert is Academic Librarian, Assistant Professor, and Barbara Fister is Academic Librarian, Professor, at the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library at Gustavus Adolphus College; e-mail: Jgilber2@gustavus. edu,[email protected].© Julie Gilbert and Barbara Fister News reports and well-publicized government studies have led to a popular perception that reading is an endangered activity, part...

Reading development and instruction is a pedagogical priority at all academic levels. Historically, in the educational field, numerous efforts have been made to facilitate the complex process of foreign language reading comprehension. More recently, increasing attention has been paid to the use of computers for developing reading comprehension skills and various efforts have been made in this r...

While the search interfaces used by common academic digital libraries provide easy access to a wealth of peer-reviewed literature, their little support for exploratory browsing. When faced with complex task (such as one that requires knowledge discovery), browsing is an important first step in process. To more effectively browsing, we have designed and implemented novel library interface (KLink...

Reading academic literature and writing review are common assignments in university education.Although there many sources describing the process of reading review, teachers students still face difficulties accomplishing these tasks.As an informal course, this course is final report eight years authors' teaching combination with course/graduation practical activities.At present, our school has t...