Institution:
The Aarhus School of
Business (ASB) Library
Aarhus
Address:
Handelshøjskolen i Århus, Biblioteket
(Library of the Aarhus School of Business)
Fuglesangs Allé 4,
8210 Århus V.
Phone 89 48 65 20
Fax 86 15 96 27
Contact persons:
Tove Bang
ASB Library
Kaj Grønbæk
Department of Computer Science, University of
Aarhus and Hypergenic A/S
Per Steen Hansen
ASB Library
Peter Kastberg
Marianne Grove Ditlevsen
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Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at the Aarhus School of Business
In
September 2000,
the ASB Library opened a LRC. This Learning Resource Centre, established by the
ASB Library and the Faculty of Modern Languages, builds upon a jointly accepted
strategy for knowledge sharing.
The LRC has primarily been organized as a workshop for learning. It is used as
an exploratorium for development of new forms of education, learning and
evaluation as well as a laboratory for training of teachers who are to act as facilitators in the new learning environments.
The purpose has been to create the best
possible framework for facilitation of the learning environment of the
students and of the teachers and researchers.
All tools and information resources are accessible via the
METRO, a user
interface developed in co-operation between teachers and researchers at the
Faculty of Modern Languages, a research environment emerged from the Department
of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus – Hypergenic A/S – and the
Library of the Aarhus School of Business.
The METRO allows
a graphically oriented user an easy navigation round the information and
learning resources displayed in the show window of the electronic study of the
LRC. The entire concept of the LRC is based on a strategy for KNOWLEDGE SHARING across professional
competence and development environments.
The Library uses the metro map metaphor as a basis for constructing paths in the
form of guided tours to the learning and information resources in the LRC. The
Metro in the LRC at the ASB Library is based on the use of the open hypermedia
system called WebNize.
The ASB Library has also utilized the Metro concept for experiments with user
instruction for the
Danish Electronic Research Library Project
(DEFF). Here the Guided Tours have been
used for structuring the content of the DEF Project as search instructions for
users.
Detailed information can be found in the following papers:
Bang, T.,
Knowledge Sharing in a Learning Resource Centre by Way of a Metro Map Metaphor.
67th IFLA Council and General Conference. Boston, 2001
http://www.ifla.org.sg/IV/ifla67/papers/088-99e.pdf
Hansen, P. - Grønbæk, K. - Bang, T. (2002), Using a Metro Map
Metaphor for organizing Web-based learning resources. “World Conference on
Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications” (EDMEDIA), Vol. 2002,
iss. 1, p. 647-652.
Keywords:
learning environment –
exploratorium for education – laboratory for training - metro map metaphor – knowledge sharing – information resources –
learning resources – guided tours |
