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NewsBreaks
Whatever Happened to MOOCs?
by Dave Shumaker
Just a few years ago, the conversation about massive open online courses (MOOCs) was everywhere in higher education and covered in the popular press. Predictions abounded that MOOCs would replace traditional college courses. In November 2012, The New York Times trumpeted this trend, dubbing 2012 "The Year of the MOOC." Disruptive innovations guru Clayton Christensen predicted in early 2013 that "higher education is just on the edge of the crevasse," and that because of online education, "even five years from now [colleges and universities] are going to be in real trouble."

Weekly News Digests
Pew Publishes Report on News and Social Media
Pew Research Center's Media & News division released a new report, "News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016," which finds that 62% of U.S. adults get news from social media networks, up from 49% in 2012.
Cengage Learning Facilitates Access to Office in MindTap
Cengage Learning integrated Microsoft's Office suite into its MindTap learning platform, giving business statistics and computing students live access to Office from directly within MindTap.
ListaPost Users Can Now Buy Getty Images Content
Getty Images signed on as the inaugural content partner for ListaPost's updated app for iPhones and Android devices. Its editorial content will be available for purchase via ListaPost using an API.
TLC Integrates Live Chat Service Option
The Library Corp. (TLC) announced that LibraryH3lp's live chat service was fully integrated into its LS2 PAC, the core of the CARL OPAC environment.
Oxford University Press Teams Up With Overleaf for Journal Submission
Oxford University Press' new partnership with Overleaf will allow authors who submit work to the publisher's Biostatistics journal to access Overleaf's collaborative, cloud-based writing and reviewing tool.

NewsLink Spotlight
Zepheira Helps Libraries Tell Their Stories on the Web
by Brandi Scardilli
Zepheira, a professional services turned product company, started working on unlocking data to reach new audiences, not only to attract new customers, but also to correct a problem its team was seeing: Not everyone's data was visible on the web. This was especially true for libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. Today, its main goal is to help libraries gain more visibility on the web through the use of linked data.

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