ALISE Distance Education SIG welcomes you to join us for two sessions at the ALISE Annual Conference exploring LIS distance education research and online advising:
Thursday, January 6, 10:30 a.m. - 12 noon: "The Competition is Virtual: the Coming of Age of LIS Online Distance Education"
Lorri Mon, Florida State University (Organizer)
Presenters: Cherri Shelnutt, (Texas Woman's University), "Experiences of LIS Online Graduate Students in the 1990s: Preliminary Results."
Jennifer Branch and Joanne de Groot, (University of Alberta), "Modeling Personal Learning Networks and Constructivist and Connectivist Pedagogies in an Innovative Online Class Exploring Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching and Learning."
Jingfeng Xia and Lydia C. Spotts, (Indiana University), "Open Courses for LIS Distance Education."
Friday, January 7, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: "Advising for LIS Master's Students Online"
Michelle M. Kazmer, Florida State University (Organizer)
Panelists: Rae-Anne Montague (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Alison Miller(Syracuse)
Laura Stanik (Rutgers)
Online advising for master's students in LIS has been a little-examined activity of LIS graduate education, but innovation in this area has the potential to be a key component of our graduates' competitiveness (and cooperation) in the information professions.
Interested in getting involved with ALISE Distance Education SIG? Join the SIG DE business meeting session on Wednesday, January 5 at 7:30-8:30 a.m. See you at ALISE!
-- Dr. Lorri Mon, Assistant Professor
College of Communication and Information
Florida State University
268 Louis Shores Building, 142 Collegiate Loop
Tallahassee, FL 32306
