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:

• Best practice presentations on MOOCs for social inclusion and employment: the cases from MOONLITE.

• Guidelines and tools for developing and costing MOOCs.

• Policy recommendations for MOOC uptake at European, national and institutional levels.

• Drafting “The Hague declaration on MOOCs as a tool for society” for a more viable and strategic role of MOOCs.

• 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 (Timothy Read)

9:45-10:15 MOONLITE guidelines and tools (Timothy Read)

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 (*)

11:30-11:45 Recognition of online learning in EHEA - status and recommendations (*)

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