This document provides an outline for a presentation on strategies for promoting open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). It discusses how librarians can become more knowledgeable about OERs and MOOCs through professional development, current awareness, and promotion activities. These include reading literature on the topics, exploring relevant websites and course offerings, attending conferences, taking MOOCs, following blogs and listservs, and engaging in research. The document also provides examples of guides and articles librarians can create to promote OERs and MOOCs within their communities.
The Learning Registry: Social networking for open educational resources?Lorna Campbell
This presentation will reflect on Cetis’ involvement with the Learning Registry and JISC’s Learning Registry Node Experiment at Mimas (The JLeRN Experiment), and their application to UKOER initiatives. Initially funded by the US Departments of Education and Defense, the Learning Registry (LR) is an open source network for storing and distributing metadata and curriculum activity and social usage data about learning resources across diverse educational systems.
Identified open access resources such as open access archives, open access books, open access journals, open access courseware, open access search engine and open source software and its actual usefulness in LIS teaching & learning process
The Learning Registry: Social networking for open educational resources?Lorna Campbell
This presentation will reflect on Cetis’ involvement with the Learning Registry and JISC’s Learning Registry Node Experiment at Mimas (The JLeRN Experiment), and their application to UKOER initiatives. Initially funded by the US Departments of Education and Defense, the Learning Registry (LR) is an open source network for storing and distributing metadata and curriculum activity and social usage data about learning resources across diverse educational systems.
Identified open access resources such as open access archives, open access books, open access journals, open access courseware, open access search engine and open source software and its actual usefulness in LIS teaching & learning process
What can Open Access offer me as a teacher?: A guide to Open Access and to ed...Stian Håklev
Presentation given with Clare Brett as part of Master of Teachers Tech Day at OISE, Oct 20 2010.
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OER and OCW Use in the Basic CompositonAnne Arendt
Open Educational Resources, including OpenCourseWare, have an increasing role in education today. It also can play a role in our basic composition classrooms. This is a document given at a presentation for the TYCA-West Conference 2009.
Official report can be found at http://works.bepress.com/anne_arendt/4/
According to the Open Education Consortium, “sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights, and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas, and understanding can be built." Whether they are purchased or freely acquired, librarians should be open to sharing their resources to everyone who wants to use them to enrich their lives through education. Open Education Resources (OER) include resources or tools that can be used and modified for free and without any legal or technical barriers, and when used properly can help foster a transparent culture of learning and engagement in our communities. In this webinar:
• Learn what Open Education Resources (OER) are and how they can be used to engender trust, generate rigorous learning opportunities, and potentially lead to smarter decision-making strategies.
• Discover a variety of OER and Open Access (OA) repositories to find accessible and authoritative resources, including textbooks, to use in curriculum.
• Acquire OER strategies for developing a variety of educational opportunities using a variety of formats.
•Understand various issues (e.g., GDPR) impacting OER in libraries.
Presentation given at D-e2009, JISC RSC West Midlands event, May 19, 2009. About Digital Repositories, their landscape in Higher and Further Education and more specifically about learning and teaching repositories. Download is Powerpoint.
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Shifts in pedagogy and learner interaction
Multilingual content and interaction and co-creation of content by participants
NISO Two-Part Webinar: E-books for Education
Part 1: Electronic Textbooks: Plug in and Learn
About the Webinar
The most rapid developments in the world of e-books have taken place in the popular market for fiction and non-fiction monographs. However, with the development of new standards such as EPUB 3 that support multimedia and the improvements in reading devices, the penetration of electronic versions of trade books has advanced quite rapidly. The market for digital textbooks, however, has grown at a more modest rate for a variety of reasons. The electronic textbook maretplace is still working through some very complex technological and business model issues.
This two-part webinar series will explore the nascent world of electronic textbooks and how publishers, students, and librarians are dealing with these new products.
In Part 1, we will explore the notion of just what an electronic textbook is. Are e-textbooks an interactive "courseware" website, an application for mobile devices and tablets, or self-contained digital files? Or is there a place for all of these and if so, how do they fit together and combine with a course syllabus?
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
Advocating for Change: Open Textbooks and Affordability
Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Open your books and turn to page 10: Getting students to use their e-textbooks
Reggie Cobb, Biology Instructor, Nash Community College
A Proof of Concept Initiative: The Internet2/EDUCAUSE Etextbook Pilots
Monica Metz-Wiseman, Coordinator of Electronic Collections, University of South Florida Libraries
What can Open Access offer me as a teacher?: A guide to Open Access and to ed...Stian Håklev
Presentation given with Clare Brett as part of Master of Teachers Tech Day at OISE, Oct 20 2010.
Abstract: Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER's) are terms being increasingly used in educational circles. There are a lot of free, well-designed and interesting curriculum resources out there for the discerning teacher to find and use in their classroom. This workshop will provide a tour of some of the key locations for finding such resources for k-12 teachers, as well as introducing you to the ideas behind Open Access in general, and a discussion of interesting new directions for lifelong professional development, such as the Peer-to-Peer university. The workshop will consist of introducing you to the terms and resources of Open Access as well as small group discussions on strategies and issues about using these resources in your classroom. This will be an interactive session, where your questions are welcome and will guide the kinds of materials we discuss.
OER and OCW Use in the Basic CompositonAnne Arendt
Open Educational Resources, including OpenCourseWare, have an increasing role in education today. It also can play a role in our basic composition classrooms. This is a document given at a presentation for the TYCA-West Conference 2009.
Official report can be found at http://works.bepress.com/anne_arendt/4/
According to the Open Education Consortium, “sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights, and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas, and understanding can be built." Whether they are purchased or freely acquired, librarians should be open to sharing their resources to everyone who wants to use them to enrich their lives through education. Open Education Resources (OER) include resources or tools that can be used and modified for free and without any legal or technical barriers, and when used properly can help foster a transparent culture of learning and engagement in our communities. In this webinar:
• Learn what Open Education Resources (OER) are and how they can be used to engender trust, generate rigorous learning opportunities, and potentially lead to smarter decision-making strategies.
• Discover a variety of OER and Open Access (OA) repositories to find accessible and authoritative resources, including textbooks, to use in curriculum.
• Acquire OER strategies for developing a variety of educational opportunities using a variety of formats.
•Understand various issues (e.g., GDPR) impacting OER in libraries.
Presentation given at D-e2009, JISC RSC West Midlands event, May 19, 2009. About Digital Repositories, their landscape in Higher and Further Education and more specifically about learning and teaching repositories. Download is Powerpoint.
Using Europeana for learning & teaching: EMMA MOOC “Digital library in princ...Getaneh Alemu
EMMA Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an implementation of a broader paradigm shift in learning
A social constructivist approach to learning where students are proactively engaged in an open, democratic, inclusive and collaborative environment (Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky)
Shifts in pedagogy and learner interaction
Multilingual content and interaction and co-creation of content by participants
NISO Two-Part Webinar: E-books for Education
Part 1: Electronic Textbooks: Plug in and Learn
About the Webinar
The most rapid developments in the world of e-books have taken place in the popular market for fiction and non-fiction monographs. However, with the development of new standards such as EPUB 3 that support multimedia and the improvements in reading devices, the penetration of electronic versions of trade books has advanced quite rapidly. The market for digital textbooks, however, has grown at a more modest rate for a variety of reasons. The electronic textbook maretplace is still working through some very complex technological and business model issues.
This two-part webinar series will explore the nascent world of electronic textbooks and how publishers, students, and librarians are dealing with these new products.
In Part 1, we will explore the notion of just what an electronic textbook is. Are e-textbooks an interactive "courseware" website, an application for mobile devices and tablets, or self-contained digital files? Or is there a place for all of these and if so, how do they fit together and combine with a course syllabus?
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
Advocating for Change: Open Textbooks and Affordability
Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Open your books and turn to page 10: Getting students to use their e-textbooks
Reggie Cobb, Biology Instructor, Nash Community College
A Proof of Concept Initiative: The Internet2/EDUCAUSE Etextbook Pilots
Monica Metz-Wiseman, Coordinator of Electronic Collections, University of South Florida Libraries
ICT literacy basically involves using digital technology, communication tools and/or access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information in order to function in a knowledge society.
Celebrating Open Access Week: Scholarly Communication Initiatives in Academic...StephDK
There are many ways that academic librarians are engaging with their communities around issues of open access and scholarly communication – collaborations with faculty, students and administration are key to understanding user perspectives and to building advocacy. This webcast will present examples of scholarly communication and open access initiatives at a variety of academic libraries across the country. Join us to learn how your colleagues are engaging with their communities around issues of author rights, open access, open educational resources, and more.
Learning outcomes:
+ Understand the variety of scholarly communication initiatives across a variety of institutional types and sizes
+ Hear about examples of collaboration and engagement with faculty and students
+ Learn about connections between scholarly communication, information literacy, collections and other services
Presenter: Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University.
Open Educational Resources and the School LibraryKaren Malbon
Open Educational Resources and the School Library. Presented at EduTech, Future Libraries Congress, Sydney, Australia, 7 June 2018. Teacher Librarians can play a vital role in finding, selecting, curating and promoting Open Educational Resources (OER) to their school communities. Gain an understanding of OER and the issues surrounding OER for K-12 teacher librarians and teachers. Discover a variety of OER and Open Access (OA) repositories and sources suited to K-12 education. Examine strategies and tools employed by teacher librarians to manage and encourage OER use.
Presentation by the OCW Consortium to the International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries. Describes the OER and OCW movements and their relation to the values and work of university libraries.
Overview of open educational resources for university libraries, relating the vision and mission of OER to the Open Access movement in libraries worldwide. Presentation to the International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries by the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
According to the Open Education Consortium, “sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights, and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas, and understanding can be built." Whether they are purchased or freely acquired, librarians should be open to sharing their resources to everyone who wants to use them to enrich their lives through education. Open Education Resources (OER) include resources or tools that can be used and modified for free and without any legal or technical barriers, and when used properly can help foster a transparent culture of learning and engagement in our communities. In this webinar:
• Learn what Open Education Resources (OER) are and how they can be used to engender trust, generate rigorous learning opportunities, and potentially lead to smarter decision-making strategies.
• Discover a variety of OER and Open Access (OA) repositories to find accessible and authoritative resources, including textbooks, to use in curriculum.
• Acquire OER strategies for developing a variety of educational opportunities using a variety of formats.
•Understand various issues (e.g., GDPR) impacting OER in libraries.
Open Educational Resources: Experiences of use in a Latin-American contextTecnológico de Monterrey
The movement of Open Educational Resources (OER) is one of the most important trends that are helping education through the Internet worldwide, and it’s a term that is being adopted every day in many educational institutions.
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.
Open educational resources: What are they and where do i find them?Amy Castillo
Presented at the Excellence in Teaching 2017 conference on February 10, 2017. Abstract: Have you ever considered using an open textbook in your class? How about open courses, quizzes, lab manuals, or other course materials? Open Educational Resources (OERs) are free and free to reuse resources or course materials that you can repurpose in your classes, including both written and multimedia content. There are OERs available for every subject matter and academic level. Tarleton librarians, Margie Maxfield Huth (Systems Librarian) and Amy Castillo (Periodicals & Electronic Resources Librarian) will discuss what OERs are, and how they can be used in the classroom. They will also show resources for identifying OERs that might be appropriate for use in your classes.
SPARC Webcast: Libraries Leading the Way on Open Educational ResourcesNicole Allen
This webcast features three librarians who have been leading OER projects on their campuses. Each will provide an overview of the project, discuss the impact achieved for students, and provide practical tips and advice for other campuses exploring OER initiatives.
Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. Marilyn coordinates the Open Education Initiative, which has saved students more than $750,000 since 2011 by working with faculty to identify low-cost and free alternatives to expensive textbooks.
Kristi Jensen, Program Development Lead, eLearning Support Initiative, University of Minnesota Libraries. The University of Minnesota has emerged as a national leader through its Open Textbook Library, which is a searchable catalog of more than 100 open textbooks. The Libraries also partnered with other entities on campus for their Digital Course Pack project, which has helped streamline the course pack process and make materials more affordable for students.
Shan Sutton, Associate University Librarian for Research and Scholarly Communication, Oregon State University Libraries. The OSU libraries are partnering with the OSU Press for a pilot program to develop open access textbooks by OSU faculty members. The program issued an RFP in the fall, and recently announced four winning proposals that will be published in 2014-2015.
The power of the three words and one acronym: OER vs OERCarmen Holotescu
The power of the three words and one acronym: OER vs OER. Subtitle: I’m not an Ogre of the Enchanted Realm (of cyberspace). I’m an Omnipresent Educational Rescuer (because I use the OER!)
Presentation at WCES 2014, 6-9 February, Malta
Full paper at http://www.scribd.com/doc/210088165/The-power-of-the-three-words-and-one-acronym-OER-vs-OER-Subtitle-I-m-not-an-Ogre-of-the-Enchanted-Realm-of-cyberspace-I-m-an-Omnipresent-Educati
Slides to support a workshop at a University of Suffolk teaching and learning day on 14 December 2016. The workshop looked at challenges involved in sourcing digital resources for learning and teaching, and discussed the role that OER might play. We also looked briefly at the Jisc resource and app store, in beta at December 2016.
OER are freely accessible, openly licensed materials embedded with text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing, as well as for research purposes. This PPT describe what is OER, Types of OER, and how OER Benefited to providers, individuals and institutions. Further it also presents national and international OER’s, that are available in an online flat form.
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Open sesame
1. Open Sesame:
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University
152 Parks Library
Ames IA 50011
Strategies for Promoting Open Educational
Resources for
Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs)
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OpenSesame.ppt
2. MOOCs, Mobile Technologies –
Their Impact on Reference Service
Amigos Library Services
Online Conference
November 7 2013
6. OUTLINE
• Introduction
• Open Educational Resources
–Professional Development
–Current Awareness
–Promotion
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
–Professional Development
–Current Awareness
–Promotion
7. In mid-March 2013, the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, hosted a two-day
conference titled “MOOCs and Libraries: Massive
Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?” Co-
sponsored by OCLC® Research, the event included
a session on Copyright, Licensing, Open Access
and one on New Opportunities for Librarians:
What Happens When You Go Behind the Lines in a
MOOC?
http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/03-18.html
8. Participants in the former session members
discussed “the challenges for licensing and clearing
copyright for materials” used in MOOCs, and
explored the potential “opportunities for
advancing the conversation on open access with
faculty,” while members of the latter reported and
speculated on the roles of libraries and librarians in
the MOOC environment.
9. Among those noted were:
•Serving as an advocate for different resource
licensing models;
•Identifying and organizing public domain images;
•As well as encouraging Open Access publishing;
and the
•Use of institutional repository content, among
other initiatives.
10. Compared to discussion of copyright and licensing
negotiations and fair use of proprietary content,
however, consideration of Open Educational
Resources and their use in MOOCs was not as
extensive and implementation strategies were not
discussed in detail.
11. To become more engaged in Massive Open Online
Courses and Open Educational Resources,
librarians should become more knowledgeable
about each through such activities as”
• Professional Development
• Current Awareness
• Promotion .
13. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Definition (1)
Often cited is the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation which defines OER as: "teaching, learning,
and research resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an intellectual
property license that permits their free use and re-
purposing by others.
Open educational resources include full courses,
course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials,
or techniques used to support access to knowledge."
14. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Definition (2)
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) defines OER as: "digitised
materials offered freely and openly for educators,
students, and self-learners to use and reuse for
teaching, learning, and research. OER includes
learning content, software tools to develop, use,
and distribute content, and implementation
resources such as open licenses.”
15. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Definition (3)
The Commonwealth of Learning "has adopted the
widest definition of Open Educational Resources
(OER) as ‘materials offered freely and openly to use
and adapt for teaching, learning, development and
research’."
Definition (4)
The WikiEducator project suggests that OER refers
"to educational resources (lesson plans, quizzes,
syllabi, instructional modules, simulations, etc.) that
are freely available for use, reuse, adaptation, and
sharing.”
16. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Professional Development
Librarians can begin to become more
knowledgeable about OERs by reading major
reviews and white papers such as the Guide on the
Use of Open Educational Resources in K-12 and
Postsecondary Education, Open Educational
Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and
Strategies for University Libraries, and The Roles of
Libraries and Information Professionals In Open
Educational Resources (OER) Initiatives.
20. Librarians should also become knowledgeable about
significant Open Resources projects and sites, as well
as other significant work, through such sites as
• the Community College Consortium for Open
Educational Resources that aims “to develop and use
open educational resources, open textbooks, and
open courseware to expand access to higher
education and improve teaching and learning,”
•Jorum, a collaboratively-created database that
provides access to thousands of OERs that can be
searched or browsed;
23. • MERLOT, “ … a free and open online
community of resources designed primarily for
faculty, staff and students of higher education
from around the world to share their learning
materials and pedagogy”;
• OER Commons that provides access to OER
sources, training, and support;
• the Open Professionals Education Network
(OPEN) whose site provides information about
OER events, resources; and other services;
33. A most appropriate opportunity to learn about
OERs and Massive Open Online Courses is to take
the OER-101: Locating, Creating, Licensing and
Utilizing OERs MOOC, “an open, self-paced online
community course that has been built to
demonstrate how to find, adapt, and develop
OERs step-by-step.”
https://www.coursesites.com/s/_OER-101
34. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Current Awareness
To remain informed about ongoing developments,
librarians should read or subscribe to OER blogs,
such as the Open Resources: Influence on Learning
& Educators (ORIOLE), and the OER blogs of
the University of Bath and the Cable Green,
Director Global Learning for Creative Commons
38. Librarians should also consider subscribing to
appropriate electronic discussion lists, such as
the Library 2.0 Open Educational Resources group;
the IL-OERS listserv, the electronic discussion list of
the Information Literacy Group and Community
Services Group; and the OER-
DISCUSS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK mailing list.
42. Librarians should also consider following relevant
ongoing OER developments via Twitter hashtags
(e.g., #oer, #opened, #ukoer).
43. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Promotion
To increase an understanding of OERs within their
communities, librarians should actively become
involved in promoting each.
Librarians can promote awareness of Open
Educational Resources in general by preparing
appropriate guides as have the Houston
Community College, Renton Technical College, and
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
47. Librarians can further promote OERs among
their colleagues by engaging in relevant
research and scholarship such as Open
Education and Libraries, Reaching the Heart of
the University: Libraries and the Future of OER,
and What Do Academic Libraries Have To Do
With Open Educational Resources?
52. • As defined by Wikipedia, a Massive Open
Online Course (MOOC) is “… an online course
aiming at large-scale participation and open
access via the web”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
53. • In late autumn 2012, the New York Times declared
2012 as the “Year of the MOOC”.
• Earlier, the MIT Review, claimed that they were
“the most important education technology in 200
years.”
• In a cover story, Time, characterized MOOCs as a
major factor that was “reinventing college”.
• The MOOC phenomenon has also been covered by
The Guardian and the Times Educational
Supplement, among numerous other educational
and news media.
56. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Professional Development
Librarians can begin to become more
knowledgeable about MOOCs by reading major
reviews and white papers, such as MOOCs:
Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs and Open
Education: Implications for Higher Education,
and MOOCs Are On The Move: A Snapshot of the
Rapid Growth of MOOCs.
59. MOOCs are on the Move: A Snapshot of the Rapid Growth of MOOCs
https://www.efmd.org/index.php/blog/view/250-white-paper-moocs-massive-open-online-courses
60. Librarians should explore the offerings of MOOC
providers by searching or browsing the contents of
a variety of directories, for example Class
Central; the MOOC List and OnlineCourses.com.
64. Librarian should schedule time to take a MOOC
individually or as a library group. An ideal
MOOC may be the MOOC MOOC, a MOOC
intended as an “examination of the MOOC
phenomenon.”
http://www.moocmooc.com/
65. Librarians should attend conferences, seminars,
and webinars, in person or virtually. Notable
recent events include Digital Literacies
Conference 2013: Online Learning and
MOOCs held at the University of Southampton
(UK), re: BOOT California Higher Education:
Leveraging Innovations in Online Education to
Improve Cost Effectiveness and Increase Quality,
and Understanding the Implications of Open
Education: MOOCs and More, the SPARC-ACRL
Forum held during the 2013 American Library
Association Annual Conference.
69. Librarians should also review available recordings or
slides such as Embracing OER & MOOCs to
Transform Education…, Massive Open Online
Courses as Drivers for Change and MOOCs &
Librarians. Of particular note is the 2013 ELI Online
Spring Focus Session: Learn and MOOCs a two-day
program held in early April 2013 that addressed
several major issues relating to MOOCs, notably
their accreditation; design and implementation;
faculty perspectives; student demographics and
motivation; and their potential benefits to a
campus.
74. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Current Awareness
To remain informed about MOOC developments,
librarians should subscribe or regularly visit
websites that offer significant news, such as the
Alt-Ed, a blog “devoted to documenting significant
initiatives relating to Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs), digital badges, and similar alternative
educational projects,” and MOOCs and Libraries, a
blog “devoted to documenting librarian and library
involvement in Massive Open Online Courses,” …
77. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Current Awareness
…the Chronicle of Higher Education, EDUCAUSE,
and MOOC News and Reviews, “ … an online
publication devoted to thoughtful critique of
individual MOOC courses and to discussion of the
evolving MOOC landscape.”
Librarians should consider subscribing to the
EDUCAUSE Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Constituent Group listserv, and join the Linkedin
MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses group and
the Facebook MOOC group.
84. Librarians should also consider following relevant
ongoing MOOC developments via Twitter hashtags
(e.g., #edex, #coursera, #moocs)
85. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Promotion
Librarians can promote MOOCs by compiling
library guides about this learning environment,
such as Nova Eastern University, University of
California, San Diego, Washtenwa Community
College.
89. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Promotion
Librarians can further promote MOOCs among
their colleagues by engaging in relevant research
and scholarship such as Are You MOOC-ing Yet? A
Review for Academic Libraries, Run aMOOC? An
Examination of Course Materials in Massive Open
Online Courses, Using Information Expertise to
Enhance Massive Open Online Courses, and The
MOOC and the Library: How Massive Online Only
Courses Could Change the Future of Library
Instruction.
94. Next Steps
While Open Educational Resources are among the
most well-known of Open Resources, there are
others that should also be investigated and
considered for integration within the MOOC
environment, namely institutional and subject
repositories, Open Data sources, Open Access
dissertations and theses, Open Access journals and
monographs, and Open Textbooks.