... 05 06 2025 06 08 2025 14 09 2025 07 10 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Artificial intelligence AI Education ChatGPT AI generative tools Large language models Natural language processing...

... of electronic resources at universities is instrumental towards realisation of the country’s ICT Strategy and the outcome-based education (OBE) model of teaching movement. Suggestions are made to the university, the university library, university librarians and the Library Association of South Africa on how...

...-mail and Twitter. For professional purposes, students used smartphones more for communication purposes than learning purposes. Apps related to educational purposes included Google Mobile, Facebook, e-mail, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia Mobile. Students perceived most apps to be easy to use and useful to them...

... depending on the type of academic discipline (social studies or sciences) and subject category (documentation and education, medicine and life sciences) to which the list belongs. As a prior step, the utility of mailing lists was analysed during the 10-year period of 2002-2011, together with their expected...

...Anne Goulding Edited by Susan Myburgh and Anna Maria Tammaro Exploring Education for Digital Librarians: Meaning, Modes and Models Oxford Chandos 2013 310 pp. 978-1-84334-659-3 £52.50 soft cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Digital...

... Education Criminology Books about true crime, with garish covers and taglines such as “shocking stories of scamming, stalking, murder, and mayhem” may be the kind of books that you would have expected to find in any supermarket or bookstore in the past 50 years or so. The difference here...

... employed a descriptive survey method supported by a questionnaire. The population of the study consisted of basic medical sciences and faculty of education lecturers made up of a total number of 122 academic staff. Findings Although the survey sampled response was not large, it represented...

... online risks existed in the students' visited sites and that the students are able to bypass the applied restrictions to visit their preferred sites. Originality/value The list of online risks can be used by researchers, teachers, parents, educational technologists, web designers, school...

... in relation to DL literature: evaluation or performance appraisal, management, and education. Findings The review demonstrates that a lot has been learned in a short time via DL studies. However, a number of issues are yet to be resolved. In other words, research in the arena of DLs is still growing...

... in defining metadata of e‐libraries for other educational objectives, such as “analysis” (the ability to separate material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood), “synthesis” (the ability to put parts together to form a new whole) and “evaluation” (the ability...

... as a didactic tool in teaching evolutionary biology and as a “futuristic” toy by several science centers. The digital side of Breedbot can be downloaded on the web site: www.isl.unina.it/breedbot Findings – The results in this pilot study suggest that using Breedbot in an educational context can be useful...

...David Mason The book is well written and the ideas and issues are clearly presented. The book is aimed at those working in education who already have an interest in the application of technology to teaching and learning. It is intended to let academics know what is going on elsewhere...

... Limited 2007 Digital libraries Sub Saharan Africa Information services Communication technologies Education Information and knowledge are recognised as the world's most critical resource and the driving force for social development and the modern economic system (Unesco, 1999...

... and adaptation before any meaningful integration can occur. Analyzing trends in contemporary LIS curriculum, Karen Markey has noted: New educational trends were primarily user‐centered. Library educators should avoid placing too much reliance on users' niche because it places them...

...L. Scatteia Purpose The aim of this paper is to describe the potential of the videogame as a mass communication medium and to propose a videogame‐based public outreach strategy for education and inspiration to space science and space activities. Design/methodology/approach The objective...

... textbooks, a way must be found to motivate their use and improve the way students use them. Originality/value This paper gives guidance to those seeking to design and implement electronic books in an educational setting. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Electronic books Education...

...Maurice B. Line Electronic media Education E‐learning is the future of education – or it may become so, for it seems at present merely to supplement traditional learning methods rather than replace them. Part of the reason is probably that instructors are not yet experienced in use...

... agency. This in turn leads to a false goal being set for library CAL. The goal is “to do teaching without human mediation”, an achievement which, it then follows, must be intrinsically worthwhile educationally. At its worst this may lead to the assumption that the creation and use of a CAL package in any...

... sufficient applicants. However, a good higher education curriculum should deliver professionals with appropriate skills and competencies given a moderate quality of applicant. Michael Middleton’s paper, addressing “vocational competency” offers a more promising line of enquiry. Middleton notes the role...

...Holly G. Willett Hybrid course delivery combines conventional face‐to‐face instruction with distance education in the same course. At Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, WebCT course management software is used in graduate library science courses to mitigate the effects of commuting...