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ALCTS Webinar: MOOCs: Here to Stay or Flash in the Pan?

Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2013

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Description:  Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are sweeping the country and libraries and librarians are watching this development carefully. This series of four webinars will help librarians gain an understanding of the complexity of the MOOC “movement,” learn how to support students and faculty engaged with MOOCs, become familiar with the copyright and intellectual property requirements in relation to MOOCs, and hear what the future may hold for MOOCs.

The webinar series will conclude on December 11, 2013 with a presentation by Jonathan Grudin, principal researcher in the Natural Interaction Group at Microsoft Research. Are MOOCs here to stay, or are they a flash in the pan? The MOOC movement is still in its infancy. Jonathan will let us know whether he is optimistic or pessimistic about the future of MOOCs.

Who should attend? Librarians, library administrators, and library educators interested in supporting and enhancing libraries’ preparation of and participation in MOOCs.

Presenter: Jonathan Grudin is a principal researcher at Microsoft and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington Information School. Prior to joining Microsoft’s Collaboration and Educational Technology group in 1998, he was professor of information and computer science at the University of California, Irvine. He worked on designing and assessing streaming media prototype systems for several years, then shifted to focus on enterprise adoption (or lack thereof) of new communication technologies – blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and others.

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Single Webinar Registration Fees:  Registration Fees:  ALCTS Member $43 ; Non-member $59 ; Group rate (members/non-members) $99/$129 ; International $43

Check the ALCTS Web site for discount pricing for the entire webinar series

For additional information and access to registrations links, please go to the following website:

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/121113

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce@ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.

Please mark your calendars for the last HCI@UBC lunch forum of the Winter 1 term featuring Professor Izak Benbasat from the UBC Sauder School of Business. Food will be provided. Please spread the word among your colleagues, students, lab mates.

December 11, noon-1pm
Lillooet Room, 301, IK Barber Learning Centre

HCI Research in the Context of E-Commerce: Studies of Customer-Technology-Company Communications on the Internet

Speaker:

Izak Benbasat, PhD
Professor, Management Information Systems Division
Canada Research Chair in Information Technology Management
Website: http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/People/Faculty_Members/Benbasat_Izak

Given that an ecommerce web site is a company’s “window to the world”, customers interact directly with a number of information technology artifacts provided by the company (such as, product recommendation software, videos for product presentations) as well as entities within that company (such as, sales assistants) and other customers (such as, collaborative shopping) via information technology mediated channels.

HCI design and evaluation in this specific context have two major components: 1) the first resembles traditional HCI work in that a customer has to interact with a computer interface to reach the online company, and 2) the second is about communication between the customer and the company that is necessary for trading to occur.   The first type of interaction is designed to enhance customers’ efficiency, effectiveness and shopping enjoyment by providing high quality information technology-based services, and the second type of interaction, or more correctly communication, is intended to improve customers’ trust in online merchants, reduce their perceived risks of buying on the web, and increase their loyalty to web merchants and commitment to online shopping.

We have conducted over 20 studies with my colleagues and graduate students over the last decade investigating a wide range of topics that included: how to improve product understanding on the web; how to provide services to customers via IT support; improving customers’ purchase quality via recommendation agent use, designing product recommendations agents that are trustworthy, and designing social interfaces to such agents; collaborative shopping; and reducing risk and deception in electronic commerce. The talk will provide a brief summary of these studies and their findings, and describe their practical implications for HCI designers and users of electronic commerce for improving the online shopping experiences of customers.

Speaker Bio:

Izak Benbasat is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canada Research Chair in Information Technology Management at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievements in Information Systems from the Association for Information Systems in 2007, and was conferred the title of Distinguished Fellow by the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) Information Systems Society in 2009. He was awarded the UBC Killam Research Prize in 1998 and the Killam Teaching Prize in 1996.

Please note that the conference is offering full and partial scholarships are available for first-time conference attendees. Information on scholarship application can be found here: http://www.preconference14.rbms.info/?page_id=127

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL/ALA invites you to attend our annual Preconference held in Las Vegas, NV: 6/24 – 27/2014. Our conference theme this year is, “Retrofit: Exploring Space, Place, and the Artifact in Special Collections”.

Our Preconferences endeavor to convene our colleagues to discuss trends and issues regarding our profession with ample opportunities for professional development, library student enrichment, and an abundance of time to network with active members of our section committed to the success and future of our cherished field.

Note the call for papers (which includes an invitation for proposals from newer members with less than five years in the profession for a panel dedicated to their work).

First-time attendees can also apply for one of our scholarships!

Click the link below to learn more about this great annual event, registration costs, scholarship requirements, opportunities for sponsorship, and other logistics.

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