Sarah Currier wrote:
> I have a new favorite phrase from my extensive and in-depth work on IPR
> these past few months: "for the avoidance of doubt"
>
> So, for the avoidance of doubt, I hope you all know that Phil knows I
> /do /know the difference between "discipline" and "idea" in the LOM,
:-)
> although I think in practice it will be a fairly spurious distinction.
And I knew that too.
> But it's nice to know Phil is turning into a real librarian these days.
Ahh, but perhaps if I was a real librarian I wouldn't disagree with you
so strongly on the importance of the difference between idea and
discipline. Speaking now with my HE Academy Subject Centre hat on, this
business of resources for physics as opposed to biological science (even
the difference between resources suitable for physics and those suitable
for engineering) is something which university teachers will pick up on
immediately. And it is important (IMHO) -- something to do with
communities of practice, something to do with keeping students
interested, but also to do with things like Kolb's learning cycle,
learning styles, and how they vary between students of different
subjects and [1]. But perhaps that's a discussion for another SIG. And
maybe there aren't many ideas which are taught in widely differing
disciplines.
Phil.
1: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/experience.htm
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