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An Analysis of the Growth, Education and Academic Research Trends of iSchools

iSchool 대학의 발전, 교육 및 연구 동향 분석

  • 장윤금 (숙명여자대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2014.01.16
  • Accepted : 2014.02.13
  • Published : 2014.02.28
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Abstract

The iSchool movement has been rapidly spread out since the foundation of iSchool Caucus (iCaucus) in 2005, which currently 52 schools have joined across 16 countries. This research aims to investigate the advances in this movement and its impact on education and research in the field of library and information science (LIS) in order to explore future trends in LIS education and research. To do so, this study classifies 21 ALA-accredited iSchools into three groups suggested by King (2006) and comparatively analyzes each group in terms of its temporal advances and curriculum characteristics. Moreover, as the new movement of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has been rapidly progressing with the initiative of North American schools since 2012, this study also intends to diagnose the possibility of its spillover effect in LIS education by examining application cases.

본 연구의 목적은 2005년 iSchool Caucus(iCaucus) 결성 이후 현재 전 세계 16개국 52개 대학으로 확산된 iSchool 운동의 발전과 이로 인한 문헌정보학 분야의 교육 및 연구 변화를 조사하고 미래의 문헌정보학 교육 및 연구 동향을 전망하는데 있다. 이를 위해 iSchool 대학 중 ALA 인증을 받은 21개 대학을 King(2006)이 제시한 iSchool 대학의 3가지 유형으로 구분하여 각 그룹의 시대별 발전형태 및 교과과정을 비교 분석하였다. 아울러 2012년부터 북미를 중심으로 급속히 전파되고 있는 오픈공개강좌교육(Massive Open Online Courses: MOOCs)의 iSchool 교육과정에의 적용사례를 통해 향후 문헌정보학 교육에 MOOCs의 파급 가능성에 대해 진단해보고자 하였다.

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