Comments on: 4 Reasons Librarians Should Join A MOOC

By: Thinking Differently: Twitter and Zite can help | FromMelbin

Thinking Differently: Twitter and Zite can help | FromMelbin — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:21:34 +0000

[...] What Will Higher Education Look Like in 2020? Tanya’s maths is bad: 2020 is only eight years away, not 12. This is, however, a topic that is concentrating a lot of thought in universities at present. It is all still a bit debatable. You could look into the economics behind Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in this essay Bitter Reality of MOOConomics or another article on What’s right and wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs. How do future libraries fit into all this? If you have any thoughts please send them to me. And here are Four Reasons Librarians Should Join a MOOC. [...]

By: Change Drivers in Higher Education | Information Tyrannosaur

Change Drivers in Higher Education | Information Tyrannosaur — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:53:02 +0000

[...] called the Current/Future State of Higher Education (CFHE2012). I’ve already talked about why librarians should join a MOOC, and this one is really relevant to our work. It has to do with the change taking place in higher [...]

By: MOOCs and Information Literacy Instruction | Information Tyrannosaur

MOOCs and Information Literacy Instruction | Information Tyrannosaur — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:19:17 +0000

[...] been taking a Coursera MOOC and have been thinking a lot about how libraries can utilize elements from some of these new [...]

By: MOOCs and Librarians - Emerging Technologies

MOOCs and Librarians - Emerging Technologies — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:02:50 +0000

[...] what’s our first step?Librarians should join a MOOC.This is the advice of Andy Burkhardt (Information Tyrannosaur) and Brian Mathews (The Ubiquitous Librarian). Burkhardt emphasizes the professional development [...]

By: Thinking Differently: Twitter and Zite can help « ALIA Information Online 2013

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