MOOCs: A path to success or a good way to ruin your weekends?

Authors

David E. Hubbard

Document Type

Presentation

Abstract

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) came to prominence in 2012. This “disruptive technology” was hyped and expectations inflated, but then came disillusionment and now hopefully a more realistic view of their potential. This author believes MOOCs can provide a practical, inexpensive means of professional development for librarians. This presentation provides a brief overview of MOOCs, followed by the personal reflections of the author, a Science & Engineering Librarian, who has participated in MOOCs. Visualization software employed during a recent MOOC, which can be used to visualize bibliographic data from Web of Science, Scopus, MEDLINE, and other sources, will also be presented.

Publication Date

7-1-2016

Language

English

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Hubbard, David E., "MOOCs: A path to success or a good way to ruin your weekends?" (2016). Texas STEM Librarians’ Conference 2015. 7.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_stemlibrarians/7