By Ian Chant. Since LJ first covered massive open

By Ian Chant. Since LJ first covered massive open online courses (MOOC)s in May’s “Massive Open Opportunity,” they have expanded in several directions in academic, public, and LIS spaces. Below, LJ checks in with an academic library offering its own MOOCs instead of just supporting faculty and a public library using a MOOC as the foundation for its adult summer reading program and updates new developments at the intersection of MOOC and librarianship, including the results of two MOOCs that addressed the LIS audience. The following is an update to a story that ran in the print version of LJ‘s December issue in truncated form. More...