This is the presentation I gave for the ACRL webcast on 5/22. "Technology is enabling Higher Education to change more in the next ten years than it has in the past hundred. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are potentially one such technological innovation and have generated a lot of press in the past year. This live, interactive webcast will focus on the role of the librarian in these online courses. First, we will examine what librarians are currently doing to provide support for these institutional course offerings. Next, we will discuss possible future roles that librarians can play as MOOCs move from the margins to the mainstream."

1. Goodbye Cybrarians,
Hello Moocbrarians:
Envisioning the Role of Librarians in
MOOCs
John D. Shank
Instructional Design Librarian @ Penn State Berks
Associate Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT)
Co-founder of The Blended Librarian http://blendedlibrarian.org/

2. PART I: 60,000 Foot View
© 2011 Jeff Tzucker

3. Quick Poll
What problems do MOOCs solve?
a. Access
b. Cost
c. Recruitment
d. All the above

4. Shirky's Insight...
"It’s been interesting watching
this unfold in music, books,
newspapers, TV, but nothing
has ever been as interesting
to me as watching it happen
in my own backyard. Higher
education is now being
disrupted; our MP3 is the
massive open online course
(or MOOC), and our Napster
is Udacity, the education
startup"

5. Is Higher Education Broken?

6. Shifting Perceptions
MOOCs reflect and reinforce:
- Elite education for the masses
- Cost savings
- Commoditization
- ?

7. Where is the library?
The challenge activity... answer the following
question:
What assumptions may exist about the future
of libraries in a MOOC world?

8. PART II: The Information
Landscape
© 2011 Jeff Tzucker
FROM THIS
TO THIS
PART II:
The Information Landscape

9. Quick Poll
Have you signed up for a MOOC?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Plan to

10. 60 Second History
cMOOCs & xMOOCs
https://s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/Dark-Side-of-MOOCs-800.png

11. 60 Seconds More
http://www.infographicszone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/the-history-of-distance-learning.jpg

12. Quick Poll
The technology that enables MOOCs has
existed for?
a. Over a decade
b. Less than a decade

13. MOOCs as Platform

14. THE RCA of MOOCs
Resource Sharing (i.e. videos)
Communications (i.e. chat boards)
Assessment (i.e. quizzes, activities)
NEW: Analytics (i.e. student interaction/stats)
Establishing our presence in courseware: Adding library services to the virtual classroom

15. PART III:
Adapting/Transforming
© 2011 Jeff Tzucker
“Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let
opportunity guide your actions.”
- Wayne Gerard Trotman

16. Quick Poll
MOOCs student completion rates are
approximately?
a. 75%
b. 50%
c. 25%
d. 10%

17. Start with Asking WHY?

18. The Problem is Changing

19. The Problem is Changing
“It's now ridiculously easy … to connect,
organize, share, collaborate, and publish with
anybody to anybody in the world.” “...we have
to move from knowledgeable—that is just
knowing a bunch of stuff—to being actually
knowledge-able; that's being able to find, sort,
analyze, criticize, and ultimately create new
information and knowledge.”
- Michael Wesch
Blended Librarianship: [Re]Envisioning the Role of Librarian as Educator in the Digital Information Age

20. Next... Ask WHAT?

21. Library MOOC Support
Duke: Duke librarians aid MOOCs with technology, research
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/04/04/duke-librarians-aid-moocs-technology-research
Wake Forest: ZSRx: The MOOC that wasn’t a MOOC
http://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/blog/gazette/2013/05/10/zsrx-library-mooc/
Georgia Tech: MOOCs: More Questions Than Answers
Catherine Murray-Rust (Georgia Tech)
Penn: Coursera and MOOCS - Penn Libraries Guides & MOOCs and
Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming - OCLC
http://guides.library.upenn.edu/content.php?pid=244413&sid=3375306 & http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/03-18.html
UC Berkeley & Brown: For Libraries, MOOCs Bring Uncertainty
and Opportunity
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/for-libraries-moocs-bring-uncertainty-and-opportunity/43111

22. What are We Doing?
- Serving new populations
- Copyright clearance/licensing
- Providing scholarly materials
- Teaching research & IL skills
- Providing course research guides
- Finding Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Interactive Open Educational Resources: A Guide to Finding, Choosing and Using What’s
Out There to Transform College Teaching

23. WHAT IF?
The challenge activity... answer the following
question:
What could libraries be doing?

24. Ultimately... Ask HOW?

25. HOW to Accomplish it?
Relevant Library Metaphors...
Social Technology Tools/Systems
Design & Engagement
Connections & Relationships
Innovate & Create

26. Flip It!

27. Convergence

28. Renovate or New Construction?

29. Next Steps...
Connect + Build = Grow Together:
https://docs.google.
com/presentation/d/1s99gtl0gdqVuXPfiESYWS
VuTE8r2YhbXJgPlG0wEgh8/edit?usp=sharing
Join the Google Group MOOCs and
Librarianship

30. Resources...
I will be adding all of the best resources I have
read or link to in the next few days. Feel free to
suggest and add resources too.

31. Resources Continued