Librarians, MOOCs, and Open Access Scholarly Resources………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….......Forrest WrightThomson ReutersScholarly and Scientific Research

8-November-2013

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

• Open to any student with internet access

• Taught by faculty from world-class institutions

• Video lectures with embedded quizzes

• Machine and peer-to-peer grading

MOOC Providers……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

• Harvard University• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)• University of Toronto• IIT Bombay

72 Courses

445 Courses

• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México• Tecnológico de Monterrey• Columbia University• University of Tokyo

28 Courses

Former and current Stanford University faculty

MOOCs and the Future of Higher Ed……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

“Flipped Classroom” Approach

• Using MOOCs to deliver lecture content

• Free up classroom time

Identifying Students across the World

• Using student performance to recruit

• Universities and Companies

Current Use of Scholarly Resources in MOOCs……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Coursera: Analysis of Algorithms. Taught by Robert Sedgewickhttps://www.coursera.org/course/aofa

EdX: The Study of Folklore. Taught by Juan Wanghttps://www.edx.org/course/peking/02030330x/study-folklore/1095

Coursera: Introduction to Engineering Mechanics. Taught by Wayne Whitemanhttps://www.coursera.org/course/statics1

1) Links to proprietary resources

2) Links to faculty-sponsored resources

3) No resources required

MOOCs: Challenges for Librarians……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Bypassed Librarians

• Faculty determines scholarly resources to include

Unenrolled Students

• Library service dependent on student status

Do librarians have any role?

The Librarian Role……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Bringing scholarly resources to the MOOC platform

Every year more documents from academic journals are made open-access

Open Access and the Librarian Opportunity……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

• Improve overall MOOC experience

• Low cost

• Mitigate copyright issues

How do Librarians Help Integrate these Resources in MOOCs?……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Create Faculty Resource Guides

• Link to open-access journals and repositories

• Why is this journal a trusted, top source?

• Scope of journal coverage

Appeal to faculty using/teaching MOOCs

• Improve overall course quality

• Open access education also needs scholarly resources

Resource Guides in Practice……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Vetting the Quality of an Open Access Journal

Year

Science Edition Social Science Edition

Open Access

JournalsRate of change

Non-Open Access Journals

Rate of change

Open Access Journals

Rate of changeNon-Open

Access Journals

Rate of change

2009 601 -- 6,740 -- 97 -- 2,151 --

2010 794 32.11% 7,190 6.68% 137 41.24% 2,581 19.99%

2011 874 10.08% 7,378 2.61% 167 21.90% 2,785 7.90%

2012 934 6.86% 7,440 0.84% 174 4.19% 2,840 1.97%

How many open-access journals in JCR™?

Resource Guides in Practice, cont.……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Journal ResourcesInternational Journal of Economics and Finance http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijef

Description: This peer-reviewed journal is published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education. The journal covers all areas of research in economics and finance, and the public can freely access articles dating back to 2009.

The International Journal of Digital Accounting Researchhttp://www.ijdar.org/aims-and-scope

Description: This peer-reviewed journal is published jointly by the University of Huelva, AECA, and the University of Rutgers. Topics cover the intersection of accounting and information technology. Free articles date to 2001.

Resource Guides in Practice, cont.……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Journal Resources

Journal of Computinghttps://sites.google.com/site/journalofcomputing/

Description: This peer-review journal is published collaboratively by dozens of researchers at universities and government institutions. Topics cover all aspects of computer science, and free coverage dates to 2009.