Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, November 2012, Vol. 10, no. 3

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, February 2013, Vol. 11, no. 1

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, March 2013, Vol. 11, no. 2

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, June 2013, Vol. 11, no. 3

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, February 2014, Vol. 12, no. 1

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, June 2014, Vol. 12, no. 2

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, January 2015, Vol. 13, no. 1

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services Biennial Report, 2011-2012

The division shall report biennially to the governor the condition of vocational rehabilitation within the state, designating the educational institutions, establishments, plants, factories, and other agencies in which training is being given, and include a detailed statement of expenditures of the state and federal funds in the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities.

Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services Biennial Report, 2013-2014

The division shall report biennially to the governor the condition of vocational rehabilitation within the state, designating the educational institutions, establishments, plants, factories, and other agencies in which training is being given, and include a detailed statement of expenditures of the state and federal funds in the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, March 2015, Vol. 13, no. 2

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, September 2015, Vol. 13, no. 3

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, December 2015, Vol. 13, no. 4

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, March 2016, Vol. 14, no. 1

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Open Educational Resources: an opportunity for virtual learning institutions

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC, Open University of Catalonia) is involved inseveral research projects and educational activities related to the use of Open Educational Resources (OER). Some of the discussed issues in the concept of OER are research issues which are being tackled in two EC projects (OLCOS and SELF). Besides the research part, the UOC aims at developing a virtual centre for analysing and promoting the concept of OERin Europe in the sector of Higher and Further Education. The objectives are to makeinformation and learning services available to provide university management staff,eLearning support centres, faculty and learners with practical information required to create, share and re-use such interoperable digital content, tools and licensing schemes. In the realisation of these objectives, the main activities are the following: to provide organisationaland individual e-learning end-users with orientation; to develop perspectives and useful recommendations in the form of a medium-term Roadmap 2010 for OER in Higher and Further Education in Europe; to offer practical information and support services about how to create, share and re-use open educational content by means of tutorials, guidelines, best practices, and specimen of exemplary open e-learning content; to establish a larger group ofcommitted experts throughout Europe and other continents who not only share theirexpertise but also steer networking, workshops, and clustering efforts; and to foster and support a community of practice in open e-learning content know-how and experiences.

Relationships between users, resources and services in learning object repositories

In this paper we describe a proposal for defining the relationships between resources, users and services in a digital repository. Nowadays, virtual learning environments are widely used but digital repositories are not fully integrated yet into the learning process. Our final goal is to provide final users with recommendation systems and reputation schemes that help them to build a true learning community around the institutional repository, taking into account their educational context (i.e. the courses they are enrolled into) and their activity (i.e. system usage by their classmates and teachers). In order to do so, we extend the basic resource concept in a traditional digital repository by adding all the educational context and other elements from end-users' profiles, thus bridging users, resources and services, and shifting from a library-centered paradigm to a learning-centered one.