Dear Colleagues,

We are collecting the syllabi of courses offered by GSLIS in 2013 Fall for COA's revisit. Please send me a copy of your syllabus. Many thanks!

Also, starting from the 2013 Spring semester, for the 4 core courses, 709, and also a few other courses, students must construct an Epsilen ePortfolio with a Learning Matrix (see attachment). Students will continue to update their ePortfolio/Learning Matrix in every course they take until they graduate. The ePortfolio/Learning Matrix course requirement is part of students' Participation grade in each course and failure to maintain the ePortfolio/Learning Matrix in every course will result in a lower grade in the course in question. Starting from this semester (2013 Fall), we will implement this requirement to all courses.  In previous semesters, Prof. Linda Cooper was the additional assessor (i.e., in addition to the instructor) for accessing students' ePortfolio, in this semester (2013 Fall), please instruct students to list me and Dr. Colleen Cool as the additional assessor.

We will have an Epsilen ePortfolio workshop on the orientation day.

This is the first semester that we require ePortfolio to be used in all courses. We will discuss more about the implementation strategy in the first faculty meeting, to be held on Aug 29.  Instructors can inform students that there will be more details available very soon.

regards,
K.B.
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Kwong Bor Ng (Ph.D.)
Vice Chair, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Queens College, City University of New York
Emails: kbng@qc.cuny.edu; kwongbor@gmail.com
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