Affiliation:
1. University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru
Abstract
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are recent innovative addition to the online learning landscape and spreading rapidly in all disciplines including Library and Information Science (LIS) profession. MOOCs proliferates, LIS professionals have the opportunity to leverage this technology to improve their professional skills. This paper, intended to understand the MOOCs concept, MOOCs and LIS Education, MOOCs Benefits, Why LIS should be part of MOOC, and at the end discussed feasible areas of application of MOOCs in LIS domain etc.
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