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Every year,ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN attracts over 2 000 participants from more than 100 countries world-wide for a comprehensive annual symposium on ICT-enhanced learning and training. More...
Cátedra Telefónica-UPF has just published a report called "MOOCs in Spain," examining the massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by higher education institutions in Spain. More...
A new online thematic group on Open Data and Education is available on the ePSI platform, a European Commission initiative that promotes the dynamic use and re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI) and Open Data across the European Union. More...
Six francophone higher education institutions have partnered to launch a new web portal on FLOTs, or Formation en Ligne Ouverte à Tous, which is the French equivalent of a MOOC. Océan, as the new project is called, aims to help francophone learners navigate the open online learning landscape. The web portal gathers French-language courses and evaluates them in terms of quality. The portal is structured like a scientific journal; educational institutions can submit their FLOT in response to the call for proposals, and the editorial committee reviews and evaluates the submissions before publishing the selected courses on the website. Open Education Europa caught up with the Yves Laszlo, President of the Pilot Committee, and Francis Delannay, President of the Editorial Committee, at the recent EMOOCS 2014 conference. More...
By Michael Guerriero. What if, as a novice teacher or professor, you began a course and the entire class decided to leave—either from apathy or boredom or the popular student conviction that whatever is not a part of the lesson is inherently more interesting than what is? That old educator’s nightmare is now a digital reality: massive open online courses, or MOOCs, born a few years ago of the seemingly well-paired utopianisms of Silicon Valley and the élite American university, are seeing that classroom management can be a difficult task without a classroom. When the Times declared 2012 the “Year of the MOOC,” it seemed, in the words of the paper, that “everyone wants in,” with schools, students, and investors eager to participate. More...
FutureLearn is the UK’s first MOOC platform. It was launched in December 2012 and is gathering steam. It is wholly owned by the Open University, but it partners with 22 other UK universities and three overseas ones (Monash in Australia; Auckland in New Zealand; and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland). Unusually, FutureLearn also partners with three other non-educational, but nonetheless academic institutions: the British Museum, British Council and British Library.
As with all the major MOOC providers the range of programs they offer are somewhat eclectic. Currently on FutureLearn you can choose from ‘Exploring Anatomy: The Human Abdomen’ through ‘Begin Programming: Write your first mobile game’ to ‘An Introduction to Physical Actor Training’. Within this range is also a growing number of business and professional programs too. The University of Strathclyde offering ‘Understanding Modern Business and Organisations’, The University of East Anglia has ‘The Secret Power of Brands’, Loughborough University’s ‘Innovation and Enterprise’ and some more focused on professionals such as ‘Fairness and Nature: When Worlds Collide’ an exploration of policy on decision-making regarding the use of managing natural resources from the University of Leeds, and similarly from the University of Bath ‘make an Impact: Sustainability for Professionals’. More...
By . University rethinks the classroom experience, offers it globally.
Registration for BU’s first four MOOCs (massive open online courses) opened yesterday, signaling the University’s official entrance into a new form of higher education that rethinks the current classroom model and offers it—free of charge—to a global audience.
“In the world of today, success comes out of being different and not just another copy of a mold,” says Chris Dellarocas, director of the Digital Learning Initiative (DLI), which develops BU’s MOOCs and distributes seed grants to faculty with innovative ideas for online education. More...
During the Joint Conference of NetECVET, the ECVET Pilot Projects and the National Teams of ECVET Experts the ECVET Toolkit had been launched.
The toolkit is an online platform developed by the NetECVET project partners to assist VET providers in the implementation of ECVET in their mobility measures/projects. It provides not only information about ECVET, how and when to use its instruments but also tools and examples for the different mobility phases.
To illustrate the value of ECVET it also contains short movies in which VET practitioners speak about their experiences with ECVET.
You can start with a short users’ guide here.
You can start right away exploring the toolkit here. Read more...
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methods and processes used to establish the extent to which a learner has attained particular knowledge, skills and competence
Additional information on ECVET can be found at:
Cedefop – European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
ECVET Community of Practice (requires registration)
Beyond this, national contact points exist in many European countries, with contact details provided separately, in this Toolkit, under “Local Contacts”. More...
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