Intute offers a free Integration service which includes easy ways of building reading lists for students, using MyIntute.
MyIntute can help lecturers to provide good content for their students. Reading lists are no longer just about printed materials. Students are increasingly turning to the Internet for their studies but they need help to identify relevant content (1). It is widely accepted that a high percentage of students rely on search engines for their academic research, and many of us identify with the frustrations around student use of poor quality resources found through these tools.
One solution is to provide links to key quality Internet resources within your VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) or university webpages. However, maintaining these is a challenge for lecturers, because of the time and effort required to regularly link check and update the web pages (2 ). Intute has developed the MyIntute service to make it easy to create and maintain personalised lists of resources that have already been carefully evaluated. It’s then simple to export and publish these. An optional dynamic link between Intute and your VLE or webpage (using JavaScript) automatically updates the links when they are checked by Intute staff. In addition our RSS feeds can provide a regular update of the latest resources added to Intute. Lecturers can also encourage students to keep their own personalised lists within MyIntute, knowing that they can rely on their quality.
Alternatively, lists of MyIntute records can be emailed to students for them to use or store in their own online spaces like del.icio.us.
You can display Intute content using your organisation’s own “look and feel”. An example is Leeds University Library which has integrated Intute across its subject pages. MyIntute lists are pulled into the “Selected websites” section.
To find out how to customise and share Intute content, go to our Quick Guide to MyIntute for customising Reources.
Or to learn about other ways of integrating content, eg. linking to Intute or embedding the Intute search facility on your website, see our Integration page.
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References:
1. L. Graham and P. T. Metaxas, ‘“Of course it’s true; I saw it on the Internet!” Critical thinking in the Internet era’, Communications of the ACM, 46(5), 2003, [online]. Available from: The ACM Portal.
2. Wales, T. (2005)”Library subject guides: a content management case study at the Open University, UK”, Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 39, No.2, 2005, pp112-121.
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