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Massive Open Online
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Metaliteracy is the
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reinvention of information
from Oct. 6, 1987. They literacy for open learning
covered the historic and social media
snowfall very effectively for environments, said Tom
a campus newspaper! Mackey, dean of the ESC's
Center for Distance
Learning. Metaliteracy empowers learners beyond the search and retrieval of static documents
to the collaborative production and sharing of dynamic information online.
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Distinguished Librarian Trudi Jacobson, who co-leads the new UAlbany-
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The collaboration is led by Mackey and SUNY Distinguished Librarian Trudi E. Jacobson, head Digital Image Concepts
of the Information Literacy Department at UAlbany. October 6, 2017

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Students sometimes see information literacy as something that is peripheral to their life after
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college, said Jacobson. That isnt actually the case, yet the information environment has
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shifted so dramatically that a new model of information literacy is needed, one that clearly
recognizes the astounding expansion of information types and sources, and the role that many When We Were Young:
individuals now assume of information producers. Rethinking Abstracts
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Metaliteracy incorporates these changes. In this MOOC, participants will be immersed in a Albany Art Collections
participatory, open environment, with the chance to learn from and communicate with experts (1967-present)
from all over the globe. And they will be creating real information products, with all the attendant October 6, 2017
responsibilities and possibilities. Guts, Butts, & Thighs
(GBT)
More information about the concept of metaliteracy, as well as a full definition, is available here. October 6, 2017
The MOOC will be facilitated by experts from UAlbany and the colleges Center for Distance
Learning. Fridays at The Student
Success Center
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As part of their course work, each student will create her or his own blog, which will be
harvested by an RSS program, gRSShopper, and appear in the Metaliteracy MOOC newsletter, Fridays are TRYdays
which will be sent to all registered participants. Flickr, YouTube and Instagram are examples of October 6, 2017
applications that may be embedded in blog posts, and participants will be encouraged to
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explore a variety of other Web-based applications. Those working on a team project will have
Sciences Departmental
flexibility in determining which technologies will advance their work.
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By incorporating the MOOC into existing modes of study, students at both institutions will earn October 6, 2017
credit.
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At UAlbany, students enrolled in undergraduate courses UUNL300x, Literacies for Lifelong
(Author Seminar)
Learning, 2 credits, and some sections of UUNL205x, Information Literacy, 1 credit, will
October 6, 2017
participate in the MOOC as part of their course work.

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Undergraduate students at ESC's CDL will earn 4 credits through independent study with Yoga
Mackey. At the graduate level, ESC will offer a 3-credit, research-based guided independent October 6, 2017
study, "MOOC Metacognitive Analysis," in the School for Graduate Studies Master of Arts in
Learning and Emerging Technologies program. FUEL
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Students will earn a varying amount of credit depending on what is asked of them and based NYS Writers Institute
on the learning outcomes identified in each part of course, while other participants will engage Film Screening: ALL
in the MOOC for lifelong learning without pursuing credit options, said Mackey. Its an open THE PRESIDENTS
social network because participation and interaction by students and faculty from different MEN
disciplines will result in new learning for all of us. The MOOC will allow us to share the learning October 6, 2017
experience between institutions and among participants around the world.
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Participants not enrolled at UAlbany or ESC may earn credit by enrolling as a nonmatriculated
2017
student.
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Metaliteracy MOOC is ESCs third MOOC. Creativity and Multicultural Communication and October 6, 2017 - October 7,
VizMath were the colleges first two and the first two offered by the SUNY system. 2017

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