Episode 16: MOOCs and Open Education

Carleen, Dana and Mark try to dissemble and make sense of MOOCs and open education and the possible role(s) of libraries in that movement.

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Podcast Notes:

• A New Culture of Learning (book)
• Q&A With The Authors of A New Culture of Learning
• ARL Issue Brief: Massive Open Online Courses: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
• MOOCs and the Future of the University
• MOOCs: What role do they have in higher education?
• The Year of the MOOC
• Transformative Learning and Technology Literacies (Michael Stephens course)
• When Freemium Fails

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Episode 15: IL Standards

The regular crew goes in-depth with information literacy standards. They declare the ACRL standards dead and look at other possible models for SUNYLA and how collaborating with the K-12 community in these efforts is needed.

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Podcast Notes:

• ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards
• The Seven Pillars of Information Literacy
• Quick Overview diagram layout
• The Big Six Skills overview
• UNESCO/IFLA joint Information Literacy statement
• UNESCO Media & Information Literacy
• Libraries and Transliteracy blog
• An Analysis of Information Literacy Education Worldwide

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Episode 14: Live at SUNYLA 2012

Carleen, Dana and Mark are joined by Emerging Technologies Librarian Ken Fugiuchi of Buffalo State to discuss happenings at the 2012 SUNYLA Annual Conference, as well as issues on mobile technologies and much more. The audio levels are a little low so you may need to turn up your volume a bit to hear us (after the intro music, so you don't blow out your eardrums :-)

Download episode 14 (mp3: 49:36 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• SUNYLA 2012 Presentations
• Pew Research hub: Libraries

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Information Transliteracy

This video of National Louis University's Gail Bush talking about information literacy in the 21st century I think dovetails nicely with some of our discussions in the last podcast (ep. 13)...

13: The Horizon Report

This month Carleen, Dana and Mark dissect the newly released NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education; discussing some of it's issues, obstacles and emerging technologies, and the possible implications for libraryland.

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Podcast notes:

• NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education
• Gamification Dynamics: Identity and Story
• Learning Conversations in World of Warcraft
• Learning and Knowledge Analytics (George Siemens site)
• Marc Prensky's writings

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Overview video from NMC about their report:

WGIL Room 12: Invasion of the Blogs!!!

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Blogs and more blogs! The regular crew shares their fave blogs and contemplates changes that have undergone the blogosphere generally, and in instructional contexts, in recent years. A side quest in search of effective screencast tutorials is taken.


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Podcast Notes:

• Carleen's fave blogs:
• ACRLog
• Lauren's Library blog
• Information Wants to be Free
• Attempting Elegance
• Dana's fave blogs:
• In the Library with the Lead Pipe: fantastic team-blog with in-depth and well-thought out articles on all aspects of the library profession.
• Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning: MacArthur Foundation blog focusing on the intersection of technology and education and covers all levels of learning.
• Academic Librarian: blog of Princeton librarian Wayne Bivens-Tatum. Even though I don't always agree with his perspective on the mostly academic issues he tackles, his posts are always thought-provoking and well-written.
• Mark's fave blogs:
• Librarian in Black (Sarah Houghton) is a strong library advocate. She is a public library director at San Rafael Public Library. Has incredible insight on the use of technology in libraries. 
• Seth Godin  is a great speaker and has good insight on marketing, new media and today's culture.
• Tame the Web, as mentioned on the podcast, Michael Stephens in a prof. at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State. He is great at explaining complex topics.
• ESC's Online Library YouTube channel
• JCC's Melville Dewey YouTube channel
• Do Screencasts Really Work? Assessing Student: Learning through Instructional Screencast

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WGIL Room 11: Late Reflections, Early Predictions and the Collaborative Effect

Our regular crew of Carleen, Dana and Mark don their New Year's hats and sound makers and reflect on the year past and prognosticate on the coming year in the library instruction world. Topics include co-habitation with a writing center, open access and open learning, and faculty-librarian collaboration.

Download episode 11: (mp3: 72 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• SUNY Empire State College Vision 2025 (focuses on Open Education)
• SUNY Central pushes shared president decision to July (Watertown Daily)
• This is NOT the future of librarianship (McMaster Univ.'s Jeff Trzeciak controversy)

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