[Purpose/significance] By analyzing the current situation of online education for master of library science in iSchools universities in the United States, this paper summarized the experience of online education for Master of Library Science in the United States, so as to provide reference for subsequent research.[Method/process] By investigating the official websites of 20 American iSchools colleges and universities, this paper analyzed and summarized their online education models in detail from the aspects of credit length, course quantity, course category and core course, etc., and drew some enlightenment for the construction and development of online education of library science in China.[Result/conclusion] Through investigations, it is found that the online education of iSchools library science related majors in the United States presents three characteristics:online education forms are flexible and diverse, and multiple measures are taken to ensure the quality of online teaching; the number of courses is large, the coverage is wide, and the curriculum system is complete; Online learning is basically the same as campus learning. Based on this, combined with the domestic reality, this paper puts forward that the construction of library science online education in China should pay attention to the development trend of international online education and reform the traditional education mode of library science; adopt various teaching methods to improve the online teaching quality of library science; take career development as the orientation, pay attention to personnel training individuation; realize the combination of library science tradition and online education.
Zhou Lihong
,
Quan Qian
,
Han Yingying
. Investigation and Enlightenment of the Status Quo of Online Education for Master of Library Science in iSchools Colleges in the United States[J]. Library and Information Service, 2021
, 65(4)
: 111
-122
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DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2021.04.012
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