by Courtney Baron, Head Editor, INALJ Georgia
MOOCs to Watch
I work at a university and the School of Art recently went through a national director search. We invited four candidates to present and meet and greet the faculty, staff, and students. Nearly all of them mentioned MOOCs as a serious trend in higher education (yes, I know – no big surprise there) and discussed the possibility of implementing new courses at our university. It was great to hear this, because I’ve started researching potential MOOC classes to supplement my library and information science education. Librarians are generally familiar with the format of online courses, since many of our MLIS programs are offered online, but MOOCs take it to a whole new level. I took the liberty of arranging a list of interesting courses that are valuable to a LIS professional.
MOOCs
- Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information by Jeffrey Pomerantz of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, via Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/metadata
- Understanding Media by Understanding Google by Owen R. Youngman of Northwestern University, via Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/googlemedia
- Learning to Program: Crafting Quality Code by Jennifer Campbell and Paul Gries of University of Toronto, via Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/programming2
- An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python by Joe Warren, Scott Rixner, John Greiner, and Stephen Wong of Rice University, via Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython
- Introduction to Data Science by Bill Howe of the University of Washington, via Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci
- Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps by Marco Gillies, Matthew Yee-King, and Mick Grierson of University of London, via Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/digitalmedia
- Internet History, Technology, and Security by Charles Severance of University of Michigan, via Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet
- Social Network Analysis by Lada Adamic of University of Michigan, via Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/sna
- Introduction to Computer Science I by David J. Malan of Harvard University, via Edx https://www.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/CS50x/2012/about
- Introduction to Computer Science and Programming by Eric Grimson of Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy, via Edx https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.00x/2013_Spring/about
- HLS1x: Copyright by William Fisher III of Harvard Law School, via Edx https://www.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/HLS1x/2013_Spring/about
- Power Searching with Google via Google http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com
- Web Development via Saylor.org http://www.saylor.org/courses/cs305/
- Computer Architecture via Saylor.org http://www.saylor.org/courses/cs301/
Whew… this is by no means an exhaustive list, but it should give you a good idea of what’s out there. I’ll see you in class!
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