Making a MOOC: Instruction Beyond Physical, Linguistic, and Generational boundaries

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are gaining in popularity.  Individuals around the world are using these courses to further their knowledge about a variety of topics, including law. Librarians, as traditional information providers, instructors, and copyright experts, are uniquely qualified to participate in MOOCs.  Our three panelists will discuss their experiences, both as teaching support and MOOC professors. Afterwards, participants will break out into groups to discuss the concept of MOOCs and the ways to design an engaging MOOC for an international audience.  Ideas generated from the groups will be shared with the entire audience.

Panelist Experience:

Kyle Courtney, Harvard Law School Library, is currently developing a Copyright for Librarians course for use in the MOOC environment and has written a chapter on copyright law in the forthcoming work Libraries in the Digital Age, by Scarecrow Press.

Loren Turner, University of Florida Legal Information Center, will be co-teaching legal research and providing faculty support for the UF Law MOOC, The Global Student's Introduction to U.S. Law, set to begin May 1, 2014 on the Coursera platform.  Loren is co-authoring a chapter on MOOC's for Scarecrow press's forthcoming The New Librarianship series with Jenny Wondracek.

Jenny Wondracek, University of Florida Legal Information Center, will also be co-teaching legal research and providing faculty support for the UF Law MOOC, The Global Student's Introduction to U.S. Law, set to begin May 1, 2014 on the Coursera platform.  Jenny provides copyright and online instructional design consultations for this MOOC, as well.