While we’ve been brainstorming about the future of scholarly communication, students and the marketplace have been shaping it. It’s time to meet them on their own turf, writes Kate Wittenberg, director of EPIC, the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia:
“Since we know that students are spending more and more time in social-networking environments like MySpace and Facebook, building complex communities and sharing musings and opinions on everything from new bands to favorite books, let’s form a partnership with one of those companies to build a networking space focusing on the information needs of students. Such a site could enable dialogue and collaboration among its users, discussion of readings, and creation of multimedia class projects. Faculty members and librarians could create profiles of their own, with commentary on the subject under discussion, and users could decide how to integrate the content and tools we provide into the environment they create for themselves.” (The Chronicle)
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