Romanian Library Science Distance Education. Current Context and Possible Solutions
Romanian Library Science Distance Education. Current Context and Possible Solutions

Summary/Abstract: The option for another solution for the Romanian Librarianship and Information Science Studies has a systemic and individual advantage at the same time. In a society where the legislation lacks seriously about the professional training, where the political decision goes above the objective criteria of hiring, a distance training imposes as an alternative solution (for those who are in the system to improve their skills, and those who wish a career as library specialists to have the opportunity to choose the proper type of learning). The necessity to experience a teaching formula for distance learning librarianship specialization is not only a need related to the labor market but rather a result of pragmatic transformation of info-documentation structures in an electronic communication era. The "digital" becomes the attribute of everyday task-communication, image creation, collection preservation, and learning. We thought it would be very useful to propose a model of teaching, learning and assessment for distance higher librarianship tested on www.oll.ro, Open learning library platform to analyze the impact on students, and especially to test the effectiveness of teaching and assessing knowledge from distance. We set a rigorous approach that reflects the problems facing the Romanian LIS education system and emphasizes the optimal strategies that need to be implemented. The benefits of such an approach can and classified as: innovation in education, communicative facilities, and effective strategies for teaching library science.

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