On Tuesday August 25th, I conducted a webinar on how to leverage the availability of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) to provide lifelong
learning opportunities in the library. For those of you who have taken a MOOC, you probably noticed that the one ingredient that is missing is personal interaction. I think this is one of the main reasons why MOOCs and public libraries are such a good fit.
To help illustrate the concept of a MOOC meetup in the library, I plan on periodically offering meetup opportunities for staff at various STLS member libraries. MOOCs selected will focus on library-related topics. The first of these events will be hosted at the Belmont Free Library on September 23rd @ 11am. I have selected the MOOC: Copyright for Educators & Librarians (https://www.coursera.org/learn/copyright-for-education#). Click here to register for the meetup.
Additional links to an abridged recording of the webinar, as well as presentation slides and related articles are available below.
View Archive (abridged)
Related articles:
https://www.class-central.com/report/libraries-and-moocs/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michaelgoldberg/moocs-and-meetups-togethe_b_6538414.html
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/12/public-services/moocing-at-the-public-library/
