ALCTS Webinar: Through a MOOC, Darkly: Understanding the MOOC Landscape
and Its Impact on Libraries' Digital Resources
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ALCTS Webinar: Through a MOOC, Darkly: Understanding the MOOC
Landscape and Its Impact on Libraries' Digital Resources
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
All webinar sessions are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific,
12 Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.
Description
MOOCs are forcing us to rethink how we teach, learn, and provide
educational resources. These courses have become a catalyst for issues
that universities must confront: the value of a degree and its rising
cost, the marketization and unbundling of education, to name a few. In
this webinar, we will take a peek through the looking glass to see how
librarians can shape the conversation about these changes and guide
faculty, administration, and students through them. Librarians are
well-positioned to become the new academic sherpas, but we must first
understand the MOOC landscape and its impact on higher education, and in
particular, on our libraries' owned and licensed digital repositories.
This series of webinars features librarians and scholars from public and
academic libraries reporting on the latest research about MOOCs and
offering practical information on creating and presenting MOOCs. It
will appeal to librarians in academic, public, and special libraries.
Presenters will discuss the role libraries play in the development of
MOOCs and share information that will enable attendees to familiarize
themselves with the steps involved in developing a MOOC. Learn more
about the Libraries and MOOCs webinar series,
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/moocs>both
upcoming sessions and those held in 2013 (recordings are available).
Who Should Attend?
Anyone with an interest in the topic can benefit from this session and
is welcome to participate.
Presenters
Curtis L. Kendrickis University Dean for Libraries and Information
Resources, CUNY. He works in concert with the Council of Chief
Librarians and other university administrators to enhance library system
funding, resources, programs, and services. He has also held library
management positions at Columbia, Harvard, and Stony Brook Universities,
and Oberlin College. A graduate of Brown University, Kendrick earned his
MLS from Simmons College and his MBA from Emory University.
Irene Gashurovis Communications Writer for the Office of Library
Services, City University of New York (CUNY). She holds advanced degrees
in library science and linguistics from Columbia University. She has
worked as editorial director (for Columbia University Medical Center and
the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), as reporter (at Fortune
magazine), copy editor (at Time), and as research librarian at the Time
Inc. Library.
Fee
Fee ($USD)
Participant
Each
Series of 4
ALCTS Member (individual)
43
138
Nonmember (individual)
59
189
International (individual)
43
138
Groups. Applies to group of people that will watch the webinar together
from one access point.
Member group
99
317
Nonmember group
129
413
Learn more about the Libraries and MOOCs webinar series
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/moocs>
All webinars are recorded and the one-time fee includes unlimited access
to the webinar recording. All registered attendees will receive the link
to the recorded session so if you are unable to attend the webinar at
the time it is presented, you will have the opportunity to listen to the
recording at your convenience.
How to Register
To register, complete the online registration form
<http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=olweb&Template=/Conference/ConferenceList.cfm&ConferenceTypeCode=X>or
or register by mail
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/files/confevents/upcoming/webinar/alcts_webinar_reg.pdf>for
the session you would like to attend.
Contact
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration_at_ala.org
<mailto:registration_at_ala.org>. For all other questions or comments
related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at
1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese_at_ala.org <mailto:jreese_at_ala.org>.
*Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.*
Received on Fri Mar 14 2014 - 03:02:49 EDT