I think CILIP sounds interesting and any approach that recognises that learning and teaching are universals (rather than held in universities) has my vote.  I’d like to use it on our continuing COOCs platform (Community Open Online Courses) as the way we are designing that is to remove the insistence on formal teachers and promote the notion that anyone can teach, and anyone can learn. 

 

The only issue I can see is the continued use of the term ‘disruptive’ (CILIP promotion) when applied to MOOCs or other open and accessible forms of learning.  Could it perhaps be better to say ‘transformative’ if we retain a sense of the present and the past not being perfect and so change offering disruption is the only possibility?

COOCs would really work with CILIP I think as we hope to transform the notion of who the teachers are too.  It could be the librarians, the library goers, the enthusiast and the autodidact.  We are currently merging the COOCS.CO.UK platform into a Moodle inspired one (COOCS.ORG) after issues with a commercial platform we could not really afford and now have to move on from.  It’d be great to get some links with the libraries as you go forward.

 

Exciting times that should be embraced and not feared.

 

Peter

 

 

e-learning & library interest. T

 

 

Interesting food for thought here......'User-led Accessible Academic Communities' ‘working .. across all sectors of learning’  ‘advantages of networked learning’ ..all this gets me thinking about the role of local government (yes really!) –more specifically *public* libraries which aim to be ‘community hubs’. There are around 4,000 of them around the UK. (So that’s 4,000 informal learning spaces). Think about how they galvanise reading groups—perhaps they could help galvanise learning groups (and maybe reduce MOOC dropout rates?) and support them with *free* access to subscription journals e.g. via the recently launched Access to Research initiative http://www.accesstoresearch.org.uk/ ), in addition to  OER and OA resources.

 

CILIP are running an event in November (http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/events/re-imagining-learning-new-opportunity-libraries ) which will look at some of these issues...Nicky Whitsed from the OU will be presenting –talking about the potential of MOOCs etc. I’m doing a slot too and would be very interested to hear views

 

Ken

 

 

Thanks terry. I've updated the link.