MOOCs: A new platform for LIS Professional Development

Kuri, Ramesh and Maranna, O MOOCs: A new platform for LIS Professional Development., 2018 . In 8th KSCL Conference on Libraries with no boundaries, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, February 16th & 17th. [Conference paper]

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are recent innovative addition to the online learning landscape and spreading rapidly in all disciplines including Library and Information Science (LIS) profession. MOOCs proliferates, LIS professionals have the opportunity to leverage this technology to improve their professional skills. This paper, intended to understand the MOOCs concept, MOOCs and LIS Education, MOOCs Benefits, Why LIS should be part of MOOC, and at the end discussed feasible areas of application of MOOCs in LIS domain etc.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: MOOCs; online learning; Professional development; LIS education; Internet learning
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AC. Relationship of LIS with other fields .
Depositing user: Dr Ramesh Kuri
Date deposited: 22 Feb 2018 03:06
Last modified: 22 Feb 2018 03:06
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/32396

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