We have talked about this very thing at our e-learning working group, and we would all support this.
We have spent a lot of time developing INFORMS tutorials which we use in taught sessions, as well encouraging students to use them for themselves. We would obviously lose all this work if INFORMS were to fold, but more to the point, I think the students would also lose a valuable tool.
Keith
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Information literacy and information skills teaching discussion
> list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Adrian Smith
> Sent: 01 December 2005 09:32
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Online tutorials software
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>
> Do we also need a concerted lobby to get JISC to fund the
> INHALE/INFORMS
> hardware and technical support at Huddersfield? The tutorials we have
> are very good IMHO but we need sustained infrastructure support from
> JISC.
>
> If they become unreliable people will stop using or updating them.
>
> Adrian Smith, Headingley
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Information literacy and information skills teaching discussion
> list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Judy Reading
> Sent: 30 November 2005 18:19
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> Subject: Online tutorials software
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>
> Please reply to me and I will summarise for the list.
>
> I would be very grateful for any information with regards to software
> which offers anything similar to the INFORMs software - ie
> which allows
> you to offer two windows at a time which you can use to provide live
> access to the open database or other service in one window and your
> choice of text in the other.
>
> Are there other services - freeware or commercial - which offer
> something similar or have improved on it in any way?
>
> Judy
>
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> Judy Reading, Librarian
> User Education Co-Ordinator and
> Educational Studies Librarian (Oxford University Library Services)
> tel: 01865-274028 [log in to unmask]
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