| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 圖書資訊學研究所 === 104 === MOOCs has been well-known since 2012. Ministry of Education was aware it and began to promote a four-year plan to encourage universities in Taiwan to produce Chinese MOOCs. One of academic libraries duties is to support teaching and research. It is important for academic librarians to figure out MOOCs. The study intends to research the cognition and attitudes of academic librarians toward MOOCs, whether the university involved in influencing their MOOCs cognition and attitudes, and analysis of relevance between MOOCs cognition and attitudes.
The main objects of the study were reference librarians from 124 academic libraries. The study took the following steps to conduct research. First, the purpose of the study was to investigate reference librarians'' cognition and attitudes towards MOOCs. 134 viable questionnaires received and the recall rate was 35.84%. Then, the purpose of the study was investigate whether the university involved in influencing their MOOCs cognition and attitudes and 3 reference librarians were interviewed.
The study explored that: 1. The cognition of academic librarians toward MOOCs: (1) Academic librarians receive MOOCs knowledge via several channels. (2)Most academic libraries did not participate MOOCs team in their university. (3) Department of Information system supports MOOCs. (4)There were three factors to influence their cognition: education degree, university policies, and library policies. 2. The factors that influence the attitudes of academic librarians towards MOOCs: (1). University policies, library policies, and the number of librarians. (2)The difference gender and background. 3 Whether university involved in MOOCs did influence cognition but attitude. 4. Low relevance between MOOCs cognition and attitudes.
In the study, there are some suggestions: 1. Librarian can encourage librarians to understand the trends of higher education teaching methods. 2. Academic librarians can provide some MOOCs services, such as negotiating license, introducing open resources, and information literacy courses.3.Library Association of Republic of China (Taiwan) can hold workshop or conference to assist academic librarians to enhance their abilities.
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