<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi John,</div><div><br></div><div>If it helps, prior to my current library role, I worked in another university department which was implementing a new suite of microcredential short courses. While I wasn't involved with the details of providing library support for our students, I do recall that broadly the decision was made to treat the enrollees as standard students in terms of access to university services, including the library. Part of the logic was that we already had a long-established pathway for people to undertake 'non-award' study, eg to enrol in and complete a single unit separately from enrolling in a full award course, and that those students were granted access to standard student resources. (Indeed, those students would have needed the standard level of library access, as the units they were undertaking as standalone study, were usually completed within a broader course, and would have been originally designed under the assumption of standard library access.) Completing a standalone microcredential short course, we decided, wasn't substantially different in this aspect from that established single unit study pathway. Additionally, providing a full 'university-standard' level of education and resource access for the new microcredentials, was a way to distinguish the university's microcredential offerings from that of other, non-university providers. (On a practical level, this was managed in the student system by housing microcredential enrolments as 'units' within a generic non-award course enrolment, so that the students 'looked like' standard students for most university systems and processes.)</div><div><br></div><div>As a side note, the terminology used in the US may differ, but here, I'm using these terms to mean:</div><div>- 'Course' - a typically multi-year, structured study program comprised of multiple units units, often leading to the awarding of a qualification</div><div>- 'Unit' - a self-contained short module of study, typically completed within a single semester or other study period</div><div>- 'Award' vs 'non-award' - 'award' study leads to the awarding of a standard university qualification (eg Bachelor, Master) upon successful completion.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Alison</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-weight:700">ALISON CARR (she/her)</span><br>Collection Analytics Coordinator</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-weight:700">Monash University</span><br>Library<br>Level LG, Matheson Library Annexe, Clayton campus</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px">44 Exhibition Walk</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px">Wellington Road</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px">Clayton, VIC 3168</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px">Australia</span><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px">E: <a href="mailto:alison.carr@monash.edu" target="_blank">alison.carr@monash.edu</a><br>T: +61 3 9902 4324<br>LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/alison-carr" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/alison-carr</a><br><br></p><p style="color:rgb(80,80,80);margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px"><a href="http://monash.edu" target="_blank">monash.edu</a></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px">CRICOS Provider: Monash University 00008C/01857J<br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px">We acknowledge and pay respects to the Elders and Traditional Owners of the land on which our four Australian campuses stand. <a href="https://www.monash.edu/indigenous-australians" style="color:rgb(0,109,174)" target="_blank">Information for Indigenous Australians</a></p><p style="margin-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">I am proud to be a member of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Network. <a href="https://www.monash.edu/ohs/OHS-structure-responsibilities/OHS-responsibilities" target="_blank">Find out more</a></span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/ohs/OHS-structure-responsibilities/OHS-responsibilities" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,151,167);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:160px;height:161px"><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/xYJu2UbSKMCtzzEX-ooC2ZWTAQOwfEc0STDcvkCO4gEhXmkl7rhIkO0_UdTim6N5FuyP29AV2hLklwMxv20pu_RCZrqtEDUJDSOFV5dOa9LK0ERABb-e9KSq8UB2TbQhf279n3ltPTb_eWzTKPpKbEc" width="160" height="161" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></span></span></a></p><p style="margin-bottom:0px"><span><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:144px;height:38px"><img alt="An image of an intersex progress pride flag on the left set against a orange gradient background. 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<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps this topic has been discussed on this list previously, but I’m trying to gather information on how academic libraries support non-credit microcredential/professional development courses in terms of access to licensed e-resources.
Do you allow participants in these programs to access licensed content, or limit your role to assisting course developers with identifying OA/OER for use as course materials? Have you made efforts to formally designate learners in these courses as “students”
at your institutions? Any insights or lessons learned would be greatly appreciated!<u></u><u></u></p>
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