Even an ocean away: developing Skype‐based reference for students studying abroad

Cohen, Sarah Faye; Burkhardt, Andy

doi:10.1108/00907321011045025

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“…While the library has frequent communications with the University's International Programs office, librarians could further these outreach efforts by speaking to students the spring semester prior to their studying abroad. Multiple authors have discussed the benefits of pre departure orientation sessions to students studying abroad (Cohen & Burkhardt, 2010;Denda, 2013;White et al, 2009). Lastly, the library can leverage its strong librarian liaison program to meet with faculty who are going to teach abroad, and discuss library resources for the international programs.…”

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“…Champlain Library enhanced services to a study abroad program in Dublin, Ireland following an on-site visit from an information literacy librarian. From this meeting, Champlain librarians were inspired to increase their services to the Dublin campus and decided to launch a Skype reference service to improve outreach to students studying abroad (Cohen & Burkhardt, 2010). Mee (2013) described efforts to improve library services to Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) international campus libraries.…”

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Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind: Surveying Library Use Among Students Studying Abroad

Vinyard

2018

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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Pepperdine University's six international campus libraries are not staffed by librarians. However, the library serves overseas students with small print collections, course specific LibGuides and highly trained student assistants. A goal of the LibGuides and student workers is to make students aware of library resources and services while studying abroad. Students studying overseas were surveyed to determine their use and awareness of library resources. In addition, to determine if the library could have an important role in supporting study abroad programs, students were asked if they had research assignments that required outside resources. While the results of the survey revealed that the majority of students are aware of library resources and services, the library should take additional steps to better serve overseas students.

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Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind: Surveying Library Use Among Students Studying Abroad

Vinyard

2018

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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“…Planning and assigning a synchronous librarian reference service using Skype to teach relevant education to college group, Cohen and Burkhardt [17] hold group classes and a one one-on-one class with a student demanding extra instruction. They discovered Skype to be appropriate for delivering educational materials to inaccessible learners.…”

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Advancing Academic Writing in a Mobile Skype-Based Blended Model

Arani

2018

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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Background: Web media like Skype, Twitter, WhatsApp, and SMS not only make it viable to deliver, receive and share educational information, but to simplify communication with other people in various skills such as writing, link sharing, and voice or video files. There are three areas addressed to direct the plan and implementation of this survey as main objectives:the faculty members' feelings and impression on applying Skype site as a media to teaching and learning academic writing process, the weak and strong points of the Skype site application during the teaching and learning academic writing, and the faculty members' perceptions toward using Skype site as a supporting tool for course delivery based on selected variables: year of teaching, past experience with Skype, and their specialization. Method &Material: The sample consisted of 70 faculty members of Kashan University of Medical sciences, all having problems writing English well by using selective sampling. The study was a descriptive quantitative-qualitative research which a general survey model was used in. The survey questionnaires consist of 30 statements, which were devised in five categories based on Premise Base and Conducive Assumptions to clarify the Skype-based educational utilities and application. The interview item was also applied to explore if the participants affirmed the media-based approach augments their learning of academic English writing process or not. Finding: Results related faculty members' perceptions toward using Skype site as a supporting tool for course delivery based on selected variables: their specialization, year of teaching, and past experience with Skype explored that there were no statistically significant differences at (α = 0.05) in the use of Skype units due to faculty members majors. There are statistically significant differences at (α = 0.05) in the use of Skype units due to the year of teaching variable, in favors of, the third and fourth year faculty members. The result also, revealed that there are statistically significant differences at (α = 0.05) in the use of Skype units due to the past experience with Skype variable, in favors of faculty members with no Skype use experience. Also, the calculated mean and Standard Deviations in six areas each having five statements arranged from the highest to the lowest ranking indicate the participants' impressions to Skype-based blended model in teaching academic writing. Conclusion: Skype media as an educational media is a beneficial medium to be applied to deliver academic writing materials and support learning. Faculty members not having enough time to participate in classes feel comfortable with the use of the Skype-based methodology in academic writing. They participating in the course expressed their acceptance of this media in learning academic writing. Skype-based teaching could become a very effective educational medium for learning academic English writing.

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Study Abroad Programs: A Golden Opportunity for Academic Library Engagement

Denda

2013

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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Even an ocean away: developing Skype‐based reference for students studying abroad

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind: Surveying Library Use Among Students Studying Abroad

Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind: Surveying Library Use Among Students Studying Abroad

Advancing Academic Writing in a Mobile Skype-Based Blended Model

Study Abroad Programs: A Golden Opportunity for Academic Library Engagement

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