Call for Chapters: Library and Information Science in the Age of MOOCs | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

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Summary:

"Objective

The objectives of this book are to spreading out Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) concept with its potential in library and information science domain. This book intend to make every library and information science professionals aware with MOOC concept as a whole and how they can play worthy roles in MOOC setting by using their LIS competencies. This book is focusing on exploring the ideas how library and information science professionals are an active part of MOOC activities and engage themselves not only in development of MOOCs library and information science area but also able to work as a backbone for other MOOC developers for solving problems related to MOOCs activities.

Introduction

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has emerged as new Avtaar in online learning environment and become a burning topic nowadays in every discipline including library and information science. MOOCs offer both opportunities and challenges before libraries, library and information science schools/ institutions and library and information science professionals. On the other hands, libraries, library and information science schools/ institutions and library and information science professionals are regularly thinking how they may not only be active part of MOOC activities by adopting, developing, linking and resolving problems faced by MOOC developers but also able to provide infrastructure, resources free from any constraints and environment to develop quality massive open online Courses (MOOCs) in diverse topics connected to different disciplines. Therefore, this book is to plan to publish which to be covered chapters on MOOCs and Library and information science issues such as survey, case study, business model, creation models, quality aspects, evaluation of MOOC, role of library and information science professionals, future implications of MOOCs in library and information science domain and other issues from library and information science professionals globally.

Target Audience

The target audiences of this book are library and information science professionals, knowledge managers, Information scientists, library and information science teachers, research scholars, students of library and information science area. Web librarians, executives, consultants, instructors, IT specialists, managers, trainers libraries, library and information science schools/ institutes and other library and information science professionals etc."

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Date tagged:

03/07/2017, 17:20

Date published:

03/07/2017, 12:20