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The Bac2Sciences sMOOC team keeps on collecting proofs of recognition for its work and it is well deserved!

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The sMOOC, Bac2Sciences was developed by female teachers who are devoted to their students with the idea to allow participants to revise their “baccalauréat”. The team consists of geographically distant teachers, from various disciplines, with complementary profiles and a common motivation to make their students succeed.

Thus, while proposing this MOOC, they have enabled their students to self-train and work together in the co-construction of knowledge on a common device.

This MOOC has been a real success and its creators are very proud!

Over the last few months they have been collecting proofs of recognition for their work:

· A favorite at Ludovia#13

· Finalist at the e-Education Symposium

· A multiple selection at the “Innovative Teachers’ Forum”

· Representations in different conferences and events: Educatec-Educatice, Clic 2016, Ludovia#13 …

At our level, we are also very proud we have been able to accompany them. Indeed, the ECO project allowed them to benefit both from the creation space on its platform and from our technical and pedagogical support.

Congratulations again to such a beautiful team!

As a reminder, the sMOOC content is still accessible here.

 

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Global Mill Week

The Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) Award

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The French ECO team is proud to receive an award granted by UNESCO and the Alliance of Civilizations for the MOOC DIYMIL, Media and Information Literacy.

On behalf of the Global MIL Awards committee, I am writing to inform you that you are a recipient of a Global MIL Award for 2016. Congratulations!

Global Mill WeekThe United Nation Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAoC), and The Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) created the awards to recognize the work and contributions of individuals, academics, NGOs, and organizations to the field of Media and Information Literacy and Inter cultural Dialogue.

The recipients will be presented with their awards during the Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2016 Feature Event, taking place from November 2 – 5th, at the School of Communication and Arts, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The objectives of our training system are to enable participants to understand the EMI issues in the digital age, to identify the key operational concepts of the EMI, to know and associate the EMI skills in an educational project.

The inter cultural team consists of profiles, both different and complementary, that have developed several learning paths in multiple languages, created resources, facilitated and adapted activities according to the needs of participants.

This team has focused on knowledge co-construction, peer review, exchange and sharing on forums. Therefore, a community was able to evolve around the device and perpetuate the same spirit in the creation of new projects. These are the very motivations of the European ECO project, a project which also focuses on content accessibility, inclusion, intellectuality, and co-creativity.

This MOOC was initiated by Divina Frau-Meigs, Professor at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, it was co-created by Berangere Blondeau, coordinated by Adeline Bossu, run by Elsie Russier and Christophe Gigon and enriched by all the participants.

This project was financially supported by the University Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC) and Investissements d’Avenir, with the technical and educational support services provided by Sapiens, led by Hubert Javaux.

« Global MIL » is the price awarded by UNESCO, “The United Nation Education Scientific and Cultural Organization,”The UNAoC, “UN Alliance of Civilizations, and GAPMIL,”The Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy”. It recognizes the work and contributions that promote media and information education, as well as inter cultural dialogue.

sMOOC Step by Step team

MOOC e-teachers support

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“sMOOC Step by Step” is a free Massive Open Online Course – MOOC is being made available by ECO, which is a European project based on Open Educational Resources (OER), that gives free access to a list of MOOCs in 6 languages, in most languages via Closed Captions (via YouTube subtitles).

This article forms integral part of that course. Our fourth edition has been already launched so you enrol!

SupportingsMOOC Step by Step teamg instructors of massive open online courses -MOOCs- may be just as important to the creation of long-term, successful courses as attracting and supporting students, according to a group of researchers.

“Most of the research on how we can make MOOCs successful has focused on the student side – how do we attract and retain them, for instance – but now attention is starting to switch to instructors, who make the MOOCs happen,” said Saijing Zheng, a doctoral candidate in information sciences and technology, Penn State. “So, it’s important to know the motivations of the instructors for teaching in this new format and their experiences and challenges when they teach these MOOCs.”

Zheng said that while MOOC students may need support during certain stages of the course, instructors face several challenges throughout the course development and instruction process, which the researchers broke into three phases: preparation, implementation and feedback.

Instructors reported that teaching a MOOC was different from teaching traditional college courses, adding that some aspects that attracted them to teaching a MOOC were also challenges. For example, the size of a class can be a motivation, as well as a burden, Zheng said.

“It’s a significant motivation for the instructors to reach thousands of students, but, in many cases, they are used to providing one-on-one guidance in a traditional classroom format,” said Zheng. “So a MOOC can be a bit overwhelming to them, if they maintain those expectations.”

Having a global impact on students, professional growth, research opportunities and enhanced name recognition were other reasons they gave for teaching MOOCs, but these also may present new challenges.

Workload during the preparation phase of the course was another concern, according to the instructors.

While most instructors and universities use traditional retention rates to determine the success of the MOOC, online courses attract different types of students and may require different metrics to measure success.

“In previous research we discovered that there are lots of data that show about 90 percent of students in MOOC classes leave the course after two weeks, which is very different from a traditional course,” said Zheng. “This may mean that MOOC students may have different motivations for attending the class — they may just be curious, or attend just so they can get materials to study on their own time.”

Feedback is critical to improving the on line courses and may require the creation of technology to provide feedback to instructors in a timely manner.

“The goal, then, as researchers and designers, is to take this feedback and hopefully provide support for the instructors’ needs,” Zheng said. “By improving support for the instructors and their collaborators, we may also improve the MOOC experience for students and other stakeholders.

If you would like to become the instructor of your own MOOC, after completed “sMOOC Step by Step” please apply to “Become an e-teacher”. We can’t wait to see what you create. – Team UoMan.

Note: Article idea and some texts are taken from:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160229182538.htm