9th Annual Web-based Information Science Education

(WISE) Workshop @ ALISEInquiry Across Time and Space

Moderator & WISE liaison:Rae-Anne Montaguerae@illinois.edu

Presenters: Nicole CookeKarla LuchtMichael Stephens

What is WISE?

A consortium of 16 LIS schools focused on promoting access to high quality online education. Features include:

– Quality Metrics– Pedagogical Training & Support– Course Share

wiseeducation.org

Workshop Agenda

- WISE- Current topics in online

education- Design (Lucht)- Community Building (Cooke)- Participatory Culture (Stephens)- Q&A- Discussion

What are expectations?

Where is learning?

Is learning fun?

mooc

How BIG is online ed?

213 courses33 universities20 subject areas

http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html

Mobile, eh?

Fundamentally, ‘mobile’ refers to the user, and not the device or the application. -- Barbara Ballard

m.library

What’s missing?

- What is available to whom?- At what cost?- Who pays for the

research?- Who benefits?- Who is missing?

During academic year 2010-2011, forty-nine of fifty-eight schools of library and information science with ALA-accredited master’s programs (84.48 percent) offered some form of off-campus delivery of courses.

Where is online education in LIS?

Expectations II

It’s not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

– Eugene Ionesco

http://img0.etsystatic.com/001/0/6331278/il_570xN.386217300_j6jr.jpg

http://www.wiredacademic.com/2012/11/infographic-student-access-to-digital-learning-devices

http://edudemic.com/2013/01/this-swedish-school-now-has-a-mandatory-minecraft-class/

http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2013/01/18/assumptions-about-mobile-to-reconsider

http://m.library.illinois.edu/labs.asp

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/2013117111237863121.html

http://www.alise.org/statistical-reports

http://librarysciencedegree.usc.edu

SOURCES

Thank you!

Rae-Anne Montaguerae@illinois.edu