ER&L 2015

February 22–25, 2015

Austin, Texas

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MOOCs as microcosm: Rethinking knowledge production & dissemination services

Monday, February 23, 2015 at 2:15 PM–2:30 PM CST

Room 105

Conference Track

8. Emerging Technologies & Trends

Keywords

disruptive innovation, open education support services

Learning Objectives

understand the landscape of emerging pedagogical models and the associated impact on library support services, advocate for library services to incorporate new modes of knowledge production and dissemination to support distance and open education initiatives.

Abstract

An exploration of the impact of MOOCs and open education initiatives on library services and knowledge production and dissemination activities. This session introduces new library service paradigms that incorporate intellectual property and copyright education, Open Access and Open Education Resource policy development, new scholarly communications activities, and instructional design support.