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(Hosting-NewsWire.com, May 18, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- Massive open online courses, MOOCs, have become increasingly popular since they joined the elearning scene over a year ago. Academic libraries seem to have a good grip on the concept, but public librarians are having a harder time catching on to the benefits and challenges of the free, no-credit courses.To begin integrating the MOOCs into everyday life and making them more accessible, knowing what exactly an MOOC is and what it does is important. MOOCs originally were established courses offered by the most popular mass open online course providers so far are Coursera, EdX, and Udacity. The idea is to allow people of all ages the opportunity to learn higher education without spending the time or money needed to obtain a degree. This supports the autodidacticism of learning, or self learning.
Libraries, both academic and public, are paramount to MOOCs because in essence, they will provide the fat for the backbone of free courses. Librarians often have extensive knowledge in copyright and plagiarism, making them a valuable resource for creating these types of courses. Teachers and professors are protected by the fair use exemption copyright law, but since MOOCs aren’t in-person learning forums, the law does not apply to those courses or the experts that created them. Librarians will increasingly become important in helping to ensure no one is committing any type of infringement.
MOOC students still heavily rely on other students taking the same or similar free courses. When librarians and their staff catch on and start treating their “free” students the same as paying students, education can be taken to a better level, and subsequently, those with respectable knowledge without a paper degree may be taken more seriously.
The million-dollar question, “are MOOCs successful?” will be answered through the proper integration of librarians into the world of free courses, who open their minds of knowledge to all students.
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