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Barnes, Cameron – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2013
Over the next few years, librarians at many Australian universities will participate in the creation of local Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This article aims to prepare librarians for this task. It begins by summarising the development of the MOOC concept and then moves on to review the growing literature on MOOCs and librarians. It…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Online Courses, Open Education, Library Role
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Becker, Bernd W. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2009
To date, over one-fifth of all U.S. higher education students are now taking at least one online course. The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) recently surveyed more than 2,500 colleges and universities to reveal that over 3.9 million students were taking at least one online course during the 2007 fall term. This number is a 12% increase from fall 2006.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Online Systems, Library Automation, Library Development