The future of academic libraries: An video interview with Steven J Bell

April 3, 2012 - 7:33am — Blake

The future of academic libraries: An interview with Steven J Bell
Steven thinks new learning initiatives like MITx and Udacity’s massive open online courses are an opportunity for academic libraries to serve non-traditional, potentially unaffiliated students, who he refers to as higher education’s new majority learners. In a recent article from his From the Bell Tower Library Journal column he suggested two possible scenarios for academic libraries within this emerging unbundled higher education landscape.