Class Size Determination and Decision Making in LIS Online Education

Author(s)

Lucy Santos GreenFollow
Kim M. Thompson, University of South CarolinaFollow
Nicole A. Cooke, University of South CarolinaFollow

ORCID iD

Green 0000-0003-1849-2392

Thompson 0000-0002-9486-3688

Cooke 0000-0002-2111-9508

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop a national landscape of the decisions made by LIS programs regarding online course enrollment caps. Online education expands learning opportunities for all students and is particularly attractive to nontraditional students who are more likely to have employment and family obligations that make attending traditional face-to-face classes difficult. At the same time, online learning can exacerbate existing opportunity gaps between certain student groups, depending on how well-prepared students are for online learning. This survey methodology study investigated course enrollment caps and the reasons behind the limits placed by Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) programs nationwide, in an effort to identify ways online education structures at the University of South Carolina iSchool could be transformed to ensure a resilient future of diverse library and information science (LIS) professionals.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2023.1261

Publication Info

Published in IDEAL, ALISE 2023, 2023.

Rights

© 2023 by the authors. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/..

APA Citation

Green, L. S., Thompson, K. M., & Cooke, N. A. (2023, October 4). Class size determination and decision making in LIS online education. IDEAL. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2023.1261