ZSRx: The back story

Lynn SuttonWake Forest University

ASERL Spring 2013

My MOOC credentials

Timeline• Online sections of Lib 100, Fall 2011• Board of Visitors presentation, Feb. 2012• MOOC mania, Spring 2012• Hired E-learning librarian, Summer 2012• ZSRx brainstorm, Fall 2012• ZSRx build, Winter 2013• ZSRx live, March 18-April 14, 2013

Week One: Search strategiesWeek Two: Advanced searchingWeek Three: Privacy and filtersWeek Four: Information management

Hoped for registrants

100

Actual registrants

713!

(we thought this was pretty cool)

(we thought this was pretty cool)

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Testimonials• “Just wanted you to know that I've learned a lot

from the course--and since at 81, I'm what you could call a computer dinosaur, no one is more surprised than I am about that!”  

• “Kudos to you and Wake for doing this, and I hope you will offer other courses in the future--how about a short course on desktop publishing?  My connection to Wake, by the way, is that my husband was in the first law school class to graduate from the "new" campus.  Thanks again.”  

Future plans• Basic ZSRx: Incoming parents

• Genealogy – partnering with public library

• Digital publishing – partnering with Dig Publishing

• Business information – newly responsible for SoB

• Health information- partnering with Medical Library