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/