This document discusses the evolving roles of librarians in the Cloud era. It notes that more scholarly materials will be freely available through open access, and that academic blogging is becoming more common. It also explains that the Cloud enables new, innovative types of content and is a compelling place for both formal and informal learning, including through massive open online courses (MOOCs). The document argues that while libraries traditionally focused on providing access to in-house resources, they now need to focus on supporting learning across the entire Cloud. It concludes that in the Cloud era, librarians' role is to facilitate the use of information in learning, and that librarians must be evolving or transforming to address these changes.
We celebrated one year of OpenContent at the University of Cape Town in February 2011. This presentation ran at our anniversary event where we gave thanks to all of our open educational resource contributors.
We celebrated one year of OpenContent at the University of Cape Town in February 2011. This presentation ran at our anniversary event where we gave thanks to all of our open educational resource contributors.
Trends and issues in open educational resources and massive open online coursesAva Chen
The Internet revolution has facilitated the concept of openness now more than ever. A number of current technologies support the paradigm of modern education in terms of creation, communication, and collaboration. Various open educational learning resources, tools, and pedagogical approaches are used in teaching and learning. Open educational resources (OERs) is one of examples that represent a global phenomenon in an innovation approach that promote unrestricted access as a possible solution for bridging the knowledge divide in higher education. OERs open up opportunities to create, share, and facilitate learning and ethical practice by creating, using, and managing by offering a wider array of educational resources among a greater diversity of global learners. Its trends and movements have become more prominent as not only a phenomenon but as a way of improving the quality of education. OERs alone are not sustainable on their own dimension. It has to combine concepts from different inter-disciplinary areas such as education for sustainable development and business perspectives. Therefore, this seminar focuses on the discussion of current trends, issues, and example of current global practices of OERs and MOOCs.
Lets Share It - Collaborative tools and practicesSteven Parker
Improving TVET Experience - which will be held on Thursday 28 June 2007 at the Telstra Stadium
Let’s Share IT - which will be held on Friday 29 June 2007 at the Telstra Stadium
http://cshtr-cc.wikispaces.com/Main
This presentation deals with the " Massive Open Online Course (MOOC ) which is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions between students, professors, and teaching assistants
The story of how Digital Cultures helped introduce Moodle within a WebCT shop at the University of Sydney.
NOTE: Eight full screen slides of this presentation are followed by the same slides with notes on the talk.
These slides are for a lightening talk at the Open Education Workshop Nov 21, 2008 at Macquarie University's Graduate School of Management organised by ASKOSS http://opened.notlong.com
Presentation by Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources at the American Association of Community Colleges Workforce Development Institute 2013 in San Diego
Open Educational Resources and Repositories: Discussion Breakout SessionSarah Currier
These slides accompanied a breakout discussion session on open educational resources and repositories at the 2009 Intrallect Conference, 25-26 March 2009.
Trends and issues in open educational resources and massive open online coursesAva Chen
The Internet revolution has facilitated the concept of openness now more than ever. A number of current technologies support the paradigm of modern education in terms of creation, communication, and collaboration. Various open educational learning resources, tools, and pedagogical approaches are used in teaching and learning. Open educational resources (OERs) is one of examples that represent a global phenomenon in an innovation approach that promote unrestricted access as a possible solution for bridging the knowledge divide in higher education. OERs open up opportunities to create, share, and facilitate learning and ethical practice by creating, using, and managing by offering a wider array of educational resources among a greater diversity of global learners. Its trends and movements have become more prominent as not only a phenomenon but as a way of improving the quality of education. OERs alone are not sustainable on their own dimension. It has to combine concepts from different inter-disciplinary areas such as education for sustainable development and business perspectives. Therefore, this seminar focuses on the discussion of current trends, issues, and example of current global practices of OERs and MOOCs.
Lets Share It - Collaborative tools and practicesSteven Parker
Improving TVET Experience - which will be held on Thursday 28 June 2007 at the Telstra Stadium
Let’s Share IT - which will be held on Friday 29 June 2007 at the Telstra Stadium
http://cshtr-cc.wikispaces.com/Main
This presentation deals with the " Massive Open Online Course (MOOC ) which is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions between students, professors, and teaching assistants
The story of how Digital Cultures helped introduce Moodle within a WebCT shop at the University of Sydney.
NOTE: Eight full screen slides of this presentation are followed by the same slides with notes on the talk.
These slides are for a lightening talk at the Open Education Workshop Nov 21, 2008 at Macquarie University's Graduate School of Management organised by ASKOSS http://opened.notlong.com
Presentation by Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources at the American Association of Community Colleges Workforce Development Institute 2013 in San Diego
Open Educational Resources and Repositories: Discussion Breakout SessionSarah Currier
These slides accompanied a breakout discussion session on open educational resources and repositories at the 2009 Intrallect Conference, 25-26 March 2009.
By Sree Sreenivasan | @Sree | sree@sree.net
On April 28, 2012, I gave a TEDxNYED talk at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY.
My topic: Connecting the Physical & the Digital:
A Key to Getting Anything Done
Or, "What I learned from
a typo, a flower and a revolution"
Among the items I talked about, the #Kristofize project saluting @NickKristof: http://bit.ly/kristofize
Medical Transcription Service: Critical to the Success of a Healthcare FacilityChampak Pol
Professional Hi-Tech Transcription Services propose all kinds of transcription services such as medical transcription, education transcription, financial, focus group transcription, etc.…
Medical transcription services to abroad various industries like healthcare industry, hospitals, clinics, physician and government healthcare departments depends heavily.
The growing adoption of open educational resources (OER) has identified the need for easy-to-use authoring platforms for the development and delivery of openly licensed digital content. Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for this free, open webinar on authoring platforms that support faculty authoring and adaption of open educational resources and institutional delivery of these resources.
Our speakers will share platforms used by faculty to develop open textbooks and deliver openly licensed digital content to faculty and students in an easy and accessible manner.
Date: Wednesday, April 8
Time: 10 am PST; 1:00 pm EST
Featured speakers:
Clint Lalonde, Open Education Manager, BCcampus
Judy Einstein, VP Business Development and Etienne Pelaprat, User Experience Director, Courseload Inc.
Domi Enders, Founder and CEO, Open Assembly
Delivered at International Education Week at Vancouver Island University October 31, 2012. This presentation is a reflection of my work at the University of Cape Town 2009-2012 with UCT OpenContent and OpenUCT.
This presentation is delivered regularly with faculty at our institution to discuss the possibilities of open education and open educational resources. I keep this presentation up to date, so please feel free to use it to share open practices and open pedagogy!
Last updated May 2014
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) & Open Source dari Perspektif KepustakawananShahril Effendi
A PowerPoint slides on the Kursus 'Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) & Open Source dari Perspektif Kepustakawanan' held on 25 May 2015 in Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) Library.
Keynote Speech, Vijay Kumar: Learning OUTed -- Open Ubiquitous Transformationalthe Hartsook Letter
Keynote Speaker: Vijay Kumar
Dr. Vijay Kumar is Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, DUE at MIT. In this capacity he provides leadership for sustainable technology-enabled educational innovation at MIT. In his prior roles at MIT as Assistant Provost and Director of Academic Computing, as well at other institutions, Vijay provided leadership for units engaged in delivering infrastructure and services for the effective integration of information technology and media services in education. Vijay was the Principal Investigator of O.K.I (Open Knowledge Initiative), a MIT-led collaborative project to develop an open architecture for enterprise educational applications.
Vijay is a member of the Advisory Committee of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and a member of the steering committee for I-Campus, the MIT-Microsoft Alliance initiative for educational technology. He is the Executive officer for MIT's Council on Educational Technology. Vijay also served on the Applications Strategy Council for Internet2, as a Trustee of the Corporation for Research and Education Networking (CREN), Chair of the Boards of the Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC) Snowmass, CO and NERCOMP.
Vijay is an active champion of open education efforts: As an honorary Advisor to India's National Knowledge Commission he has been engaged in advancing Open and technology enabled initiatives for educational access and quality in India; He is actively involved in efforts, such as those supported by the Hewlett Foundation, and Curriki to advance the use of Open Educational Resources for improving educational access and quality. He is also an advisor to the Open University of Catalonia.
Vijay has recently co-edited "Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content and Open Knowledge " (MIT Press, August 2008), a book sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Presented at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada - An Introduction to Educational Computing with Steven Shaw (PhD supervisor) on November 11, 2013.
1. Librarians in the Cloud
era – Evolving or
transforming roles?
CHOY FATT CHEONG
University Librarian
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
fcchoy@ntu.edu.sg
2013 EBSCO User Seminar
The Value of E-resource in the Cloud Era
Hong Kong, 11 April 2013
Hotel Nikko Hong Kong
2. SaaS (Software as
a Service)
PaaS
(Platform as
a Service)
IaaS (Infrastructure
as a Service)
THE
INTERNET?
A shared pool of digital resources, content
& services accessible via the Internet
5. THE CLOUD
Increasing
volume of
“high quality”
information is
available for
free in the
Cloud
The Cloud enables the growth
and rapid development of
innovative new content
The Cloud is a compelling
place for formal and
informal learning
Some general observations …..
6. A key
selling
point
“Libraries provide access to expensive
scholarly content and high quality
publications to their users which they
don’t normally get from the Internet”.
Still
true
Less so because of Open
Access and increased use of
new media
Increasing volume of “high quality”
information is available for free in
the Cloud
1
7. Recent
Developments
FASTR (US)
White House Directive
Finch report (UK)
Public funds Research Output-Publications
Should be
freely
available
Rationale
Momentum
Open Access
Mandates
Research
funding
agencies
80 worldwide
(A) More scholarly materials will be on Open Access
Open access refers mainly to scholarly publications or content that
are made available for free access to the public via the Internet.
8. Green
Mechanism
Gold
Continue
subscription
model
More scholarly materials will be on Open Access
Depends on archival
policy of publisher
Via repositories
With embargo
Depends on APC
(Article Processing Charges)
Via OA journals
Immediate access
Maintaining repositories
Encouraging deposits
Manage funds
for APC?
Librarian’s role
Monitor & respond to changes in open access
environment & developments
10. Academic blogging
(B) More blog content from academics,
professionals, experts and institutions
Contribute to
scholarship
Secondary
literature?
Not peer reviewed, but
blogger has reputation to
protect
Content related to their
own work and publications
Types of academic blogs
Individual
Group
Institutional
A hierarchy of value?
Journal
articles
Conference papers
Academic blogs
Conversations /Discussions
14. Reasons for academic blogging
Fit in with current social
environment & norms
Alternative ways in
disseminating their work/ideas
Make quicker impact on the
community
Better engagement with public
Establish online identity &
reputation of author
ACADEMIC BLOGGERS
Fairly reliable content
Reveal thought/
scholarly process
Easier to understand
(lead-in to more
scholarly content)
More immediate
USERS
15. EXAMPLE : blogs@ntu
Librarian’s role – Supporting academic blogging
KEEP TRACK OF &
PROVIDE SUPPORT
TO WHAT
ACADEMICS ARE
ENGAGING IN
Usefulness of a central service
Assistance in setup & design (e.g.
provide custom-designed templates
Training & technical support
Provide updates on new features
Archive & preserve content
Promote use and outreach
Affiliation with institution
Potential in developing added-value
service
17. The Cloud enables the growth and
rapid development of innovative
new content
2
Traditional content New content
Static, immutable,
unchanging, stable,
well-established in
scholarship process
e.g. books, journal articles,
newspapers, reports, audio
recordings, videos, films,
broadcast, etc
Continuously updated, fluid,
interactive, open, shareable,
non-linear, can be mixed,
mashed up, data-mined,
disaggregated, aggregated,
e.g. Wikipedia & wikis,
blogs & other blog-based
content, data-sets, Twitter,
Tumblr, etc.
18. Characteristics of new content
Digital technology
evolving rapidly
Rapid increase in
new content type Is basis for current
benchmarks in
measuring scholarship
activities
Traditional content
Not encouraged in scholarly
and academic work – citability
& impermanence issues
Lack of traditional mode of
authoritative stamp of approval
Wildly popular
Widely used
Collaborative
Immediate & quick
Rapid innovation
Watch
this
space!
19. Librarians need to spend more time with new content
Traditional content New content
enable effective learning and the pursuit of knowledge
Goal of libraries
Librarians know much about this
Part of current library work
Providing access
Managing documents
Scholarly communication
Bibliometrics
Librarians know less about this
Not mainstream responsibility
Not considered scholarly
Evolving technology
Rapid changes
Altmetrics
20. LIBRARY
Present
focus on providing
access to resources
of the library
Need to
focus on
the whole
CLOUD
EXAMPLE:
Are we teaching
our students
about the
information
world or the
library?
21. The Cloud is a compelling place
for formal and informal learning3
2012 – The Year of the MOOC – New York Times
Providers - Coursera, Udacity, Edx, etc. Latest – FutureLearn
(Open University + 12 British universities)
Massively
Open Online
Courses
Taught online by star faculty of
prestigious universities
Open enrolment (anyone can sign up –
no pre-requisite
Students form online learning groups
Free!
22. The cloud is changing the paradigm of
learning & education
MOOCs,
Free online courses,
delivered in websites,
Youtube videos, itune,
audio files, etc
Learning objects,
online documentaries,
standalone lessons,
learning guides, etc
Traditional distance
learning courses
delivered online (fee-
based)
ONLINE LEARNING
BRICK & MORTAR
23. NPTEL-INDIA - WEB –BASED “Page turner” http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/105104098/
National Programme on
Technology Enhanced
Learning. India
26. BBC ONLINE COURSES – ANIMATION-ENABLED http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/onlinecourses/
27. Reasons for
engaging in online
learning
To obtain credentials
To improve skills or
acquire new expertise for
work
For personal
development & interest
MORE ONLINE LEARNING …
Independent Learning
Life-long learning
28. Independent learning before the Cloud era
Libraries are structured and organized for the independent learner
Instruction and literacy
classes
From
novice
to
expert
29. Independent learning in the Cloud era
Learning issues in the Cloud
Wide range of learners with varying
needs & learning skills
Large volume, variety and
complexity of information may lead
to learning failure or ineffectiveness
Lack of organization or structure in
the Cloud to guide in learning tasks
Review a vast
amount of existing
works
Make sense of the
information
Identify salient
issues
Evaluate, analyze,
synthesize, create ….
Perennial skills needed
even in the Cloud era
30. Librarians’ roles in Cloud era learning
Co-creators of content and
learning services
Symptoms
Academic
integrity issues
Plagiarism
Non-completion
of learning tasks Learning how to learn
Provide guides and scaffolding
to online learning
Using content – copyright,
academic integrity
Provide services, facilitate,
advise, teach ….
Participate in innovating in
the Cloud
31. CONCLUSION
The role of librarians is to facilitate the use of
information in learning and the pursuit of
knowledge and wisdom
LIBRARIANS - EVOLVING OR TRANSFORMING?