Beschreibung
This book reports on a rather unique European experience, the pioneering ECO project for Social MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and recapitulates the whole three-year process. It provides a critical perspective on the future of MOOCs in Europe and provides several comparisons with other existing models and platforms. The book contains chapters that address the major issues connected to MOOC design and implementation. The first 8 chapters cover large issues that extend beyond the ECO project experience, such as creative industries and trans-literacy; management and implementation; learning environments and platforms; dissemination; pedagogical models; interactivity and agility; gamification; evaluation; and business models. The last 3 chapters hone in on narrowly focused topics such as mobility, knowledge transfer and peer to peer evaluation. The specificities of this on-going project (funded by the EU) are: a unique collaborative pedagogy, an intercultural process (6 languages), and focus on intercreativity, the multiplying impact of e-teachers (the community of participants that was empowered to create more than 50 new MOOCs), accessibility and gamification. The book will be of interest due to its holistic approach to MOOCs and its assessment of their opportunities and their limitations. Many issues are explored and contribute to deeper understanding of the phenomenon and its transformative capacities for education and learning.
Autorenporträt
Divina Frau-Meigs is professor of media and ICT sociology at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France. She holds degrees from the Sorbonne University, Stanford University and the Annenberg School for Communications (University of Pennsylvania). She holds the UNESCO chair "Savoir-devenir in sustainable digital development: mastering information cultures" (2013--). She was granted the "Global MIL Award" by UNESCO and Alliance of Civilisations for her MOOC DIY MIL (2016). She is an expert with UNESCO (on MIL, social media, youth and radicalisation), with Council of Europe (on MIL and Digital Citizenship Education), and with the European Union (on MIL for all and online disinformation). Dr. FrauMeigs directed CLEMI (the French Center for Media and Information Literacy) during 20132015 and prepared the French school response after the "Je suis Charlie" terrorist attacks. She is the cochair of the European Chapter of GAPMIL, the Global Alliance for Partnerships in Media and Information Literacy. She represents civil society interests (academia and research) in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and in other global arenas (ICANN, WSIS.). She is the cofounder and president of Savoir*Devenir, an NGO dedicated to 21st century media literacies and digital citizenship. Sara OsunaAcedo is a Professor of Communication and Education and Deputy Vice Director for Continuous Education at the National University for Distance Education of Spain (UNED). She is a University expert on MOOCs, Social Media, Free Software, Media Analysis and Integrated Technologies and Knowledge Societies. Her research lines are MOOC, media convergence, digital scenarios, disability, digital learning and social networks. She has coordinated the European project ECO "Elearning, Communication and Opendata: Mobile, Massive and Ubiquitous Learning" where 23 partners from nine different countries participated. Noteworthy are the works published in journals and editorials with some scientific impact on the results of the ECO Project. CARMEN MARTALAZO is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She is Director of Unizar Radio station and Director Entremedios Digital Platform. She is Main Researcher in Digital Communication and Information Research Group (GICID), that forms part Government of Aragon (S29_20R). She is Coeditor in chief of Mediterranean Journal of Communication. She was part of the project "Elearning, communication and Open Data: Mobile, massive and ubiquitous learning", as coordinator in the partner of the University of Zaragoza. She has conducted numerous scientific forums related to her research lines, based on Media Education, Digital Competence and screen consumptions and interactions.
