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EXEMPLARY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE INTERFACE PROJECT FOR SCHOLARLY EDUCATION

Kay E. Vandergrift, Principal Investigator
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University

Project ECLIPSE, with Professor Kay E. Vandergrift as principal investigator,
was funded as an SROA Pilot Project by the Rutgers University Information
Science Council in support of research investigating innovative uses of
technology in education. Project ECLIPSE both disseminates research results and
investigates the process by which scholarly websites for graduate and
professional education are created. It explicates the methodology for the
creation of such sites and presents that methodology to professional colleagues.
It also demonstrates strategies for the study and teaching of children’s
literature using digitalized resources.

The investigation of the development of scholarly interactive websites is both
timely and relevant as electronic, web-based technologies are increasingly
employed as strategies of teaching and learning. The changing nature of textual
and pictorial media in the electronic age raises important questions about the
evolution and development of materials for students, how to combine educational
and developmental goals in designing new media, and how to provide access to
cultural artifacts in ways to enrich intellectual and literary experiences of
both adult and child learners. Despite an expanding number of teaching and
learning resources available on the WWW, there is a surprising dearth of
scholarly research for the professional education of the adults who create and
provide these materials.

Using the WWW to disseminate Project ECLIPSE offers scholars and students of
Children’s Literature around the world access to both unique intellectual
resources and digitalized versions of rare objects not commonly available in
libraries or in standard courses on the History of Children’s Literature. The
methodological design rationale provides a system that not only contains
cultural artifacts, but provides a reasoned infrastructure to deliver these
objects in a web-based interface. The implemented prototype serves as a
proof-of-concept that can be applied to similar content in the domain of history
of children’s literature and cultural artifacts and conceivably beyond to other
discipline areas.

The significance of this project lies in the research on the development,
implementation, and use of information technology for web-based graduate
education by the construction and use of a prototype model for creating such
sites. The technical design may provide a template for similar information
structures.

 




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