LIS-BAILER subscribers may be interested to know about my new book on
educational informatics:
Web-Based Learning through Educational Informatics: Information Science
Meets Educational Computing. Nigel Ford, Department of Information
Studies, University of Sheffield. ISBN: 978-1-59904-741-6. IGI Global.
406 pages. April 2008.
Here’s a brief summary I hope you may find useful.
The book presents developments in “educational informatics”, which
represents the fusion of key concepts from library/information science,
education and computing. The book seeks to offer a rigorous definition of
educational informatics (differentiating it, for example, from educational
technology by highlighting library/information aspects), and goes on to
develop a new integrated conceptual framework for this field.
For long, computer-based learning systems have provided sophisticated
pedagogical mediation to complex learning content. But the need for this
content to be carefully pre-structured by educators has meant that it has
been relatively narrow and limited.
By comparison, library/information science has enabled information seekers
autonomously to explore a vaster and much less structured world of
knowledge – but with the concomitant inability to provide pedagogical
mediation.
Educational informatics attempts to combine the best of both worlds by
enabling pedagogically mediated access to the vast information universe
available via the Web, fusing standards and techniques relating to
metadata, ontologies and semantic web-based reasoning approaches.
Educational informatics represents the intersection of library/information
science, education and computing, extending each by injecting key concepts,
techniques and approaches from the others.
This book provides an integrated view, presenting a thorough foundation of
key concepts before going on to introduce leading edge educational
informatics systems, and critically to discuss key conceptual, pedagogical
and methodological issues. The book is written for students, teachers and
researchers in information science, and is designed to be accessible to the
non-computer specialist. It is clearly illustrated, with 120 figures and 32
tables.
For more details (table of contents, exerpts, etc.) please see:
http://igi-global.com/books/details.asp?id=7643
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