For generations scholars and teachers have collected resources and filed them in a box—ready for use when needed. The IU is developing the Scholar's Box — an easy to use, interactive tool that enables the same process over the Internet. It will enable faculty, teachers, students, and the public to gather, create, and share — core activities in both scholarship and teaching — personal collections of digital materials made available from multiple sources and repositories.
The Scholar’s Box will allow teachers and researchers to work the way they always have as they gather, organize and share materials and resources; and it adds many new options for the manipulation, creation and sharing of information currently available in the environment of desk-top and Internet computing.
Read more about the Scholar's Box here.
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 The IU continues development of the Scholar's Box: a collection of tools that enables users to gather resources from multiple digital repositories, and from them create personal and themed collections, and other reusable materials, that can be saved, shared, and accessed for teaching and research. When fully operational, the Scholar's Box will enable the easy integration of digital learning objects into curricula, and will interoperate with other common user tools.
In April IU team members traveled to the Spring 2004 Task Force Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and to the Spring Forum of the Digital Library Federation (DLF), to present some of the latest Scholar's Box developments. While these two organizations are distinct, with separate missions and constituents, they share an interest in assessing and identifying standards and "best practices" for digital collections and network access, as well as a focus on initiatives and services that expand access to resources for scholars and to online collections for use in teaching, and, in general, the enhancement of teaching and learning through information and educational technologies.
These challenges and goals are central to Scholar's Box and IU work. The two meetings provided opportunities for the IU to explain the challenges and context of developing a Scholar's Box environment that connects digital libraries, educational technologies, personal information spaces, and social software, while showcasing progress in Scholar's Box development and related IU partnerships.
. . . Continue on to the IU News May 2004 page to read more about the IU's current and future work.
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