Virtual Digital Libraries for Professional Education

Personalizing Digital Libraries for Education

E-Learning Systems enable students to work with electronic teaching materials, to join online courses, to pass tests, and to communicate with other students or instructors. An important requirement of this systems is the integration of external knowledge management resources into them. The digital libraries are helpful to this purpose because materials of many digital libraries are valuable for...

Education for digital libraries: library management perspective

The paper examines three Master’s programmes in digital libraries: Digital Library Learning (Oslo University College, Tallinn University, and University of Parma), Digital Library and Information Services, and Digital services – culture, information and communication (Swedish School of Library and Information Science). The author uses her direct experience of developing one of the programmes, c...

Virtual reality environments for healthcare professional education.

Dear Editor, I refer to the paper by Walsh on the future of e-learning in healthcare professional education [1]. The paper aptly states that the e-learning has moved from simple text based learning to more interactive, multimedia social learning resources. While e-learning has been around ever since the internet was formally established, advanced techniques in e-learning, such as digital game b...

Digital Curators' Education: Professional Identity vs. Convergence of LAM (Libraries, Archives, Museums)

Factors Influencing Professional Ethics Development in Virtual Education

Ethic is a reflection and mirror image of dominant values in organizational activities and responsibilities. The present study investigates the experience and viewpoints of faculty members of Payam-e-Noor University of Kerman regarding the factors that may influence professional behavior at the stable virtual university. The study analyses the contents of the interviews of...