MOOCs

MOOCs And Publishing

Demystifying the Library

Library Services

The MOOCs conversation is a publishing conversation because....

MOOCs are published

[complex, multifaceted, digital] resources

MOOCs student need access to [copyrighted, published] resources

Libraries can support 'disruptive innovation' is by disrupting library processes & collapsing arbitrary division between patron facing and back end services.

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Public Service

• Information literacy initiatives
• Bibliographic instruction
• Academic reference / research support
• Embedded librarianship / co-teaching initiatives
• Outreach, public programs, exhibits

• Acquisitions and licensing
• Policy development
• Resource delivery infrastructure
• Resource creation
• Rights management
• Digital asset management

Technical Service

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Seeing the Trees

for the Forest

Disruptions in publishing models

Media

over saturation

DIY Culture

Value & cost of a degree

'Customized Education' Practices

The Rights Stuff

Library Services Disrupted

THEN: oWNERSHIP AND tRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP IS PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD

Availability of data

QUESTIONS?

Changes to Information Literacy paradigms

New pedagogical contexts

FAIR USE

The Rights Stuff

https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/la/intellectual_property_9.20.11.pdf

Nora Almeida, MLIS MFA

Pedagogy

Publishing

How we learn

Technology

Twitter: @nora_almeida

Email: nora.almeida@baruch.cuny.edu

How we teach

Flipped Classrooms

MOOC as Microcosm

• Librarian as publisher
• Academic Commons
• Institutional repository
• Open Textbook programs
• Librarian as consultant
• Intellectual property & copyright adviser
• Librarian as advocate
• OA & OER policy development
• Negotiate licenses for new educational contexts
• Prevent piracy that threatens flexible license arrangements.
• Librarian as designer
• Instructional design support

As a 'disruptive innovation' MOOCs present an opportunity for revisiting the relationships between publishing and pedagogy and technology.

MOOCs were not

created in a vacuum

How we deliver resources

As a 'disruptive innovation' MOOCs are a force that render former knowledge production and dissemination models ineffective.

MOOC as Microcosm

nOW: oWNERSHIP IS COMPLEX. iNDIRECT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DIFFERENT moocS STAKEHOLDERS ONLY FURTHER COMPLICATE WHO OWNS WHAT AND WHO IS RESPONSIBLE TO WHOM.

Rise of distance education initiatives

Where the Library Comes in

Access to higher education

UPenn: Educating Faculty

Changing student expectations

Not all MOOCS are Created Equal

Changes in resource formats

Extra-Institutional Impact:

Disrupting Publishing

CUNY: Supporting OA

Publishing & Policy

http://guides.library.upenn.edu/copyright/MOOC

Responses from commercial publishers

To MOOCs / Open Education Initiatives

Harvard: Advocacy & Consulting

• Elsevier embeds textbook content in EdX MOOCs and offers discounts for print / etextbook purchases (2013)

• Coursera launches a 1 year pilot with Cengage, Macmillan, Oxford, Sage, and Wiley to deliver copyrighted content through a DRM protected etextbook reader in exchange for usage data and statistics (2013)

• Nature and Palgrave make data from an Author Insights survey available to the public during Open Access Week (2014)

http://oercuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/10/07/cuny-oer-online-class/

https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/copyright/first-responders

MOOCs as Microcosm