Finding and Using Faculty Development Resources
Dr. Ray PurdomUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro
Andrea Eastman-Mullins Alexander Street Press
August 10, 2006
Finding “Tools”
Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy
Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy
Faculty Development VocabulariesReal-life projects: Educause (http://www.educause.edu) MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org) Pod Network/National Teaching and Learning Forum site
(http://www.ntlf.com/pod/resourcesonteaching.htm) UNC Professional Development Portal (http://pdp.unctlt.org)
Teaching and Learning Libraries
http://conference.unctlt.org/proposals/topics.htm
UNC Compendium of TLT Training (http://www.unctlt.org/training)
Alexander Street Press’ Women and Social Movements (http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com)
Librarians’ controlled taxonomy.
Users select from these terms.
Usage statistics show what terms users really search for.
TLT Training Compendium: Controlled, but flexible taxonomy
Includes topics and subtopics.
Administrator can edit terms anytime.
Women and Social Movements: Taxonomy + Folksonomy
Over 26,000 pages of primary documents with teaching tools.
Extensive taxonomy = powerful searching.
Extensive taxonomy = powerful browsing.
New community-driven site.
Users post content.
Users post teaching tools.
Users add their own labels.
Next Step?
Controlled subject vocabulary
+
Folksonomy
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“Collabulary”
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