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Jul. 3rd, 2007 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadesfireThe following is an acutal extract from the abstract of an article with the innocuous name "A window of opportunity: libraries in higher eduction."
"The lecture and online transmission of rapidly outdated content will continue to give way to a focus on the qualities required by students for employability and lifelong learning. Heavier and more diverse workloads on university teachers will encourage the disaggregation of their teaching. This will provide a window of opportunity for academic librarians to demonstrate their educational partnership role. They should contribute proactively to that disaggregation and, as a key accountability, to the development of information literate students."
I think someone swallowed a management-speak dictionary...
"The lecture and online transmission of rapidly outdated content will continue to give way to a focus on the qualities required by students for employability and lifelong learning. Heavier and more diverse workloads on university teachers will encourage the disaggregation of their teaching. This will provide a window of opportunity for academic librarians to demonstrate their educational partnership role. They should contribute proactively to that disaggregation and, as a key accountability, to the development of information literate students."
I think someone swallowed a management-speak dictionary...
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Date: 2007-07-03 05:55 pm (UTC)Also, rapidly outdated content? Oi. If it's all so rapidly outdated, why to I have to still look up articles from the eary eighties because that's when the research was first done?
XWA
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Date: 2007-07-03 05:59 pm (UTC)*g* Sure sounds like it, doesn't it?
The previous sentence to this includes the word 'massification', which sounds like something a hip hop artist would say. Librarians aren't known for their rapping skills :S
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Date: 2007-07-03 07:35 pm (UTC)That's a word? Is that like 'amassment'? *checks dictionary.com* Interestingly dictionary.com recognizes 'demassification', but not 'massification'. But LJ's spell-check knows it, huh.