III MOONLITE MULTIPLIER EVENT: MOOCs as a tool for challenges in society
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Description
III MOONLITE MULTIPLIER EVENT: MOOCs as a tool for challenges in society
The MOONLITE project (Massive Open Online courses eNhancing Linguistic and Transversal skills for social inclusion and Employability, Ref.: 2016-1-ES01-KA203-02573; http://moonliteproject.eu) and The Hague University of Applied Sciences would like to invite educational practitioners and policy makers to this half-day conference on June 20th in The Hague. MOOCs have the potential to overcome legal, linguistic and financial barriers for an important part of society as an key step toward social inclusion, employment and entering higher education. The MOONLITE project promotes the large-scale uptake in Europe of MOOCs and creates learning and collaboration opportunities for different student profiles and MOOC providers.
To this end this project has developed guidelines and tools to support institutions in the development and delivery of MOOCs and has also interviewed practitioners and policy makers in this area. The results of which are a series of best practices and recommendations. These results will be presented and discussed at the project multiplier event:
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Best practice presentations on MOOCs for social inclusion and employment: the cases from MOONLITE.
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Guidelines and tools for developing and costing MOOCs.
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Policy recommendations for MOOC uptake at European, national and institutional levels.
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Drafting “The Hague declaration on MOOCs as a tool for society” for a more viable and strategic role of MOOCs.
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A networking event.
Attendance is free. Please register yourself via the green button and receive logistic information, obtain attendance certificates, materials, etc.
PROGRAM
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Opening and welcome (Beatriz Sedano)
9:45-10:15 MOONLITE guidelines and tools (Beatriz Sedano)
10:15-10:30 Overview of policy recommendations (John Traxler)
10:30-10:45 The Multinclude project (Edward van Os)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15:11:30 Online and blended learning for refugees - messages from the field (Meri de Campos, SPARK)
11:30-11:45 Recognition of online learning in EHEA - status and recommendations (Katrien Bardoel, NUFFIC)
11:45-12:15 Discussion on policy recommendations for MOOCs in Europe (Alastair Creelman)
12:15-12:30 Summary and closure
* Speakers to be confirmed
Organiser EADTU
Organiser of III MOONLITE MULTIPLIER EVENT: MOOCs as a tool for challenges in society
The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) is Europe's leading institutional association in online, open and flexible higher education, and is at the heart of the modernisation agenda of European universities. Growing from its eleven founding members in ten European nations, EADTU now has a membership of fifteen institutions and fourteen national associations across 25 nations. Its membership covers over 200 universities and around 3 million students.
EADTU has a European coverage and is regarded as a key-partner of the European Commission as far as lifelong open and flexible learning in distance higher education is concerned.
The EADTU office is located in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
If you would like to know more about EADTU, please visit our website or email to: secretariat@eadtu.eu
