New project evaluates the quality of French-language MOOCs (aka FLOTs)

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...