Last week, Valerie Bross, co-chair of this year’s NASIG Continuing Education Committee (CEC), asked for proposals for CEC funding for the coming year. I decided to submit a proposal for creating a pilot online course focusing on best practices and case studies for e-resources management. I don’t know yet if it will be accepted or if it will emerge with a different focus, but I am excited about the possibility of helping to provide an excellent, inexpensive, dynamic, topically relevant online course for the benefit of NASIG.
The landscape for developing an online course has changed quite drastically in the past few years. Meredith Farkas and colleagues, rightly famous for their excellent work on the Five Weeks to a Social Library online course, demonstrated emphatically that great value can be provided with little direct cost, using existing tools such as Drupal. I think this is an exciting time and developing or possibly working on something like this fits well with my ongoing love of teaching.
