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MOOCs and academic libraries : a chance or a problem? : an overview
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- I MOOCs (Massive open online courses) sono corsi online di carattere accademico aperti a tutti e senza limiti di iscrizione. Obiettivo di questo contributo è delineare il dibattito sullo sviluppo dei MOOCs e sul loro impatto sui servizi informativi delle biblioteche accademiche. Nella prima parte dell'articolo vengono descritti i MOOC come fenomeno didattico emergente nell'ambito dell'educazione superiore e accademica. Lo sviluppo di piattaforme come Coursera, EdX e Udacity nel 2012 apre una fase entusiastica (il cosiddetto "picco di aspettativa", nel Ciclo di Hype), accompagnata da un ampio dibattito nell'ambiente educativo e accademico.
- Nell'articolo si analizzano punti di forza e criticità dei MOOCs. Nella seconda parte parte dell'articolo si focalizza l'attenzione sulle possibili interazioni tra MOOCs e biblioteche accademiche, concentrandosi sui temi seguenti: coinvolgimento e ruolo dei bibliotecari nell'implementazione dei MOOCs; gestione del copyright all'interno dei materiali didattici che costituiscono un corso; information literacy; advocacy della biblioteca; impatto dei MOOCs nei servizi informativi forniti dalle biblioteche accademiche. [Testo dell'editore].
- Massive open online courses(MOOCs) are online courses free and open to anyone: the MOOCs enrollement is essentially unlimited. Purpose of this essay is to offer an overview on the debate about the development of the MOOCs and about their impact on academic libraries information services. In the first part MOOCs are examined as an emerging educational tool and a very "disruptive" innovation in the field of the higher education. The development of MOOCs platforms as Coursera, EdX and Udacity in 2012 starts an enthusiastic phase (the so-called "peak of inflated expectations" in the Hype cycle model), followed by a wide debate in the educational / academic milieu. We consider the strengths and the critical points of MOOCs. In the second part the author focuses the attention on the interaction between the MOOCs and the academic libraries. The following issues are taken into account: the involvement / the roles of the librarians in the implementation of the MOOCs; the copyright management in the MOOCs environment;.
- the information literacy; the library advocacy; the impact of the MOOCs on information services provided by academic libraries. [Publisher's Text].
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DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-9072
ISSN: 2038-1026
KEYWORDS
- MOOC, e-learning, Information literacy, Educazione permanente, Comunità, Social network, Biblioteche accademiche
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