The Transparent Library School – a school I want to attend
Posted: 18 May 2011 Filed under: Education, Featured, Library School | Tags: Education, Library School 1 Comment »Education should be inspiring for all involved. Learning should be filled with discovery, encouragement, and experimentation—both with ideas and tools. The best online and in-classroom experiences can and should be enhanced by the online LIS professional commons. – Michael Stephens
Michael Stephens’ new Office Hours column is out in Library Journal today and it is incredibly insightful and important for everyone involved in LIS education to read – and I’m not just saying this because it references a blog post I made a few months ago.
Stephens also gave a presentation yesterday at McMaster University called Transforming Library Science Education: Heretical Thoughts. You can view the slides from the presentation HERE. They focus on a lot of the same issues he aims at in the column. There are so many interesting ideas in the slides alone I can only imagine how thought-provoking the talk was.
UPDATE 19/May: Stephens has added some thoughts from attendees of his heretical thoughts presentation on his site.
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*I have about three more weeks of classes. Once they are finished I plan to focus on writing a lot more. I have several ideas in mind including addressing the issues discussed above.
*Featured image credit Michael Stephens.
[...] I also hope to write more about education in general and comment on some of the ideas that Michael Stephens brought up in his recent LJ column. I’m sure there will also be posts about books and movies, my job hunt and various other [...]