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Presented at Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Monday, March 18 2013 Austin, TX Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are popping up all over, offering opportunity and a lot of questions. Through personal exprience, exploring the work of others, and discussion with session participants, the presenter will strive to show how libraries can and should be part of the planning and implementation of MOOCs.
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MOOCs and Libraries: Massively
Open Online Courses or Maybe
Others Ought to Create?
Jesse Koennecke - Head, Electronic Resources - Cornell University Library
MOOCs & Libraries
• General MOOC info
• Personal experiences as a MOOC student and as a librarian
• Library involvement o A few areas libraries can make a difference
o Being part of a MOOC institution not necessarily required
o Collaboration opportunities
MOOC Movement
• What is a MOOC? o Massive, Open, Online
• Current environment o Coursera, edX, uDacity
o Khan Academy
o Others
• Cost/benefit to institution o Replacement for any on-site curriculum?
o Revenue
• Meanwhile, back in Philadelphia o "MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?"
to Be Broadcast Online 18-19 March
My MOOCs
Personal Experiences
• As a MOOC student o Teaching styles
o New territory
o Information access
• Cornell MOOCs? o On the verge - planning, planning, planning
o Six Pretty Good Books: Explorations in Social Science
o Library involvement
Play to Your Strengths
• Course development
Get involved
• Content Access
ER&L bread and butter?
• Services
Rethink existing ideas
• Spaces
Library as an incubator for changing learning patterns
Course Design
• Get involved
• Usability o Evolving concept
o Cognitive walkthrough
• MOOCs often based on an existing course o Will there be a connection to on-site courses or students?
Content Access
• Licensed o Some publishers have been open to licensing in this
environment
• Open Access
• Copyright
• Fair Use?
Open Source Content
"I see this open-source book not as something which is "free and worth every penny", but rather, as a high quality alternative to the business as usual of the textbook industry and I hope that you agree."
- Jeff Zeager
Open textbook for Coursera Algebra course.
Stitz, Carl and Zeager, Jeff. (2011). College Algebra (Version = 3). Open Textbook. http://stitz-
zeager.com/Precalculus/Stitz_Zeager_Open_Source_Precalculus_files/SZCA07152011.pdf
Services
• Reference
• Information Literacy o Copyrights in MOOCs
o MOOC Terms of Use
• Is the MOOC part of your institutions curriculum is some way?
Embedded Librarians? I imagine librarians joining MOOCs and not just serving a traditional role (let me guide you to some info) but genuinely becoming a part of the course (let’s build and learn together.) This is a chance for us to present ourselves as public thinkers, public learners, public instructors, and public knowledge makers. This is an opportunity to fully participate in the total learning process—or at least a greater share of it. I want students, faculty, and others seeing librarians as partners, collaborators, experts, and fellow learners. Not just the keepers of the proxy.
Brian Matthews - The Ubiquitous Librarian
Matthews, Brian. (2012, July 27). MOOC Fluency – some advice for future librarians.
Blog entry: http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/
Spaces
• Library as an incubator for changing learning patterns
• MOOC destination
• Collaborative spaces, computer/internet access, information access
• Stamp of approval? o Coursera Signature Track
How and why
does the library
get here?
• Public
• Academic
• School
• Special
Collaboration
• Is this work scalable? o To 3 courses? How about 100?
o To 500 students? How about 50,000?
• edX o Asked themselves these kinds of questions
o Working together: edX Library Collaboration
WG on Content Accessibility
WG on Research Skills
More Information MOOCs, General Information
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) . EDUCAUSE Library. http://www.educause.edu/library/massive-open-online-course-mooc
Kolowich, Steve. (2012, October 16). Texas MOOCs for Credit? Blog Entry: Inside Higher Ed. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/16/u-texas-aims-use-moocs-reduce-costs-increase-completion#.UH07uLttCAw.email
MOOCs and Libraries
"MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?" to Be Broadcast Online 18-19 March - http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2013/02-11.html
Butler, Brandon. ISSUE BRIEF: Massive Open Online Courses: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries. ARL. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/issuebrief-mooc-22oct12.pdf
Matthews, Brian. (2012, July 27). MOOC Fluency – some advice for future librarians. Blog entry: http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/