10 June 2022
Conference 2022
A massive Thank You to all who attended the UKSG 2022 conference both in person in Telford and online. We had such positive feedback about the programme, particularly the plenaries, and are looking forward to seeing your detailed feedback in the survey which was just mailed out to you. Please do respond - we read every line!
A special thanks to our sponsors and exhibitors for supporting us in this new format - we appreciate it, and couldn't do it without you.
As a reminder, all delegates can view the recordings https://cvent.me/Qq5zxQ at their leisure. Our thanks to all the folk at IET.tv for helping us to seamlessly (!?) pull off a fully hybrid programme for the first time in our history.
If you would like to see the photos from the in-person version, please check them out here: https://bit.ly/3x0KiKJ (Disco photos to follow in the next issue :))
See you next year in Glasgow! Add 13-15 April 2023 to your diaries and watch out for the call for papers which will go out later this month.
Forthcoming Events
Our upcoming events on predatory publishing and the introduction to e-resources have both sold out. You can still register for the predatory publishing webinar (https://bit.ly/3ulszvS)and go on the list to access the recording after the live event. Well over 1,200 people registered!
The latest Insights article:
Lazarus, Flora Charles, and Rajneesh Suryasen. 2022. “The Quality of Higher Education Through MOOC Penetration and the Role of Academic Libraries”. Insights 35: 9. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.577 / https://bit.ly/3wLqFHC
Abstract
The governments of emerging economies have realized the potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs) for enhancing the quality of higher education, but MOOC penetration is still very low in countries like India. This article explores the issues relating to MOOC integration and attempts to identify the key drivers for the adoption of a MOOC-based curriculum. Integration into the curriculum, the MOOC services of the academic library and the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development’s (MHRD) policy and support are identified as the key drivers for increasing MOOC penetration. The article also suggests a direct relationship between the level of MOOC penetration and the quality of higher education in emerging economies. The practical implications for practice and policy are classification of the MOOC services of the academic library and a decision-making model that chooses a hybrid learning strategy for higher educational institutions.
Bev
10 June 2022