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The iSchool Institute

Symposium Series

Sept 30-Oct 1, 2013

Pushing the Envelope in Education

New Roles for Libraries

MOOCs, eLearning and Gamification

Welcome

Welcome

Washrooms

Hashtag #moocslib

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Lunch

Starbucks

No-host drinks tonight – dinner for those who want to stay

Tomorrow

The Philosophy

What are the opportunities for libraries in the e-learning space?

Support? Provider? Creator? School? Colleges? None?

What are the academic underpinnings of e-learning and gamification?

How does this relate to libraries, learning, and research institutions?

What’s happening today in real experience and practice?

And, what can we vision and imagine for the future?

How do we do this? Where can we start?

The Agenda for Monday

Introduction

Framing the Opportunities for Libraries

CISCO learning, access to knowledge, and employability

Underpinnings of eLearning: How the "Tried and True" Informs the New

MOOCs for Librarians

Lunch (provided)

eLearning in Libraries

Research

Gamification in Action

Quick trip for a beer conversation afterwards

The Agenda for Tuesday

Coffee & Muffins

MOOC Toolkit

eLearning Support in Action

Supporting eLearning

Lunch (*provided)

MOOCs to Online Learning

ELearning/MOOC Platforms

Putting it All Together: Brainstorming Roles for Supporting eLearning, MOOCs & Gamification 

What came together to threaten the current social and business models of education?

Perfect Storm? Critical Mass?

Digital content – web, licensed, free and fee

Shareability

Globalization of edu-markets

New research into understanding learning styles and intelligence

Production price point is doable and mass market potential\

Devices are ready and available in core market(s)

Cloud software and hosting creates a simplified online environment – no downloads…

Perfect Storm? Critical Mass?

Devices are affordable

Alignment of synchronous and asynchronous strategies for learning

Collaboration based software is emerging more fully into the workplace

Social software is fully embedded in the consumer space and especially with targeted young scholars

Online registration and payment methods are more rugged

Homework and assignments can be done and submitted by individuals and cohorts

Perfect Storm? Critical Mass?

Decent video, audio, recording, and graphics tools. Way past PPT

Online assessment is emerging as doable

Class size variable seems to be based on judgment combined with business models

Class size depends on how learning happens – technical transfer or knowledge embedding?

Solid tools and practices are emerging for learning and engaging. Real challenge is on the instructor / designer level and with evaluation of same.

Content is differentially emerging…

The Landscape

Content

Infrastructure

Technology

Environments

Content

Textbook publishers: Cengage Learning, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill

e.g. Ed2Go, Learn4Life, Gale Online High School

10’s of thousands of authors, rugged editorial and updating… major investments in development

Other content – open-textbooks, open source, open access

Loads of excellent and questionable content available for free (or hopefully free)

Infrastructure

The “Cloud”

Linked Data

The Web

Technology

Simple tools make an e-learning environment like multiple instruments make and orchestra.

The musicians AND the conductor make the experience.

It takes work, plans, scripts and practice.

The experience happens on many levels whether there’s and audience of one or more . . . or not.

Environments

MOOCs

EdX, Coursera, Udacity

Learning Management Systems

Blackboard, Moodle, Desire to Learn (D2L)

Very interesting early successes in pilots and trials: TED and Khan Academy, University of Phoenix, MIT and Harvard, etc.

Unresolved Issues

Copyright

Rights

Ownership (unions and faculty contracts)

Compensation

Sustainability

Accreditation

Credential(s) acceptance

Key Questions

How does e-learning fit into the library service portfolio

Do we just support or get more fully into it? Where does our library fit?

To build or not to build your own?

How does learning happen best?

How do we assess student success in this environment?

How do we measure success?

MOOCs

How could the landscape change?

Prediction: 45% of higher education institutions in North America merge or go under…?

New entrants: the periphery moves to the centre.

Public Libraries offer K-12 credits and become schools

Public Libraries offer college courses and online support and coaching

Associations adopt technical certification and accredited diplomas for IT, and technical trades

How could the landscape change?

Disruption: Local boards of education are no more. They are forced to merge at the state and provincial level as cost-effective models and technical scalability become concerns based on financial considerations.

Disruption: Massive mergers/consolidations, bankruptcies of traditional publishers and institutions of higher education

Disruption: Global providers emerge from the Far East and drive west.

Questions . . .

ENGAGE

Enjoy the Symposium

Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLAConsultant, Dysart & Jones/Lighthouse Consulting Inc.

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