MOOQ at UNESCO World OER Congress (WOERC) 2017
MOOQ is fighting for the quality of Open Education, OER and MOOCs at the international WOERC 2017!
The European and international initiative is supporting the Satellite Events on the OER quality.
Open Education
Quality of MOOCs: Challenges – and hopes for improvement?
Quality of MOOCs: Challenges – and hopes for improvement?
The quality of MOOCs is challenged and questioned from the very early beginning. MOOCs are „Massive Open Online Courses“ and were introduced in the year 2008: The first MOOC was called „Connectivism and Connective Knowledge“ (CCK08) and organized by Stephen Downes and George Siemens. Many MOOCs followed leading to a peak in the year 2012 that was also called the „Year of the MOOCs“ by the New York Times. Currently the hype is over but the number of MOOCs and their online learners are continuously increasing.
MOOQ and ICDE establish close cooperation
MOOQ and ICDE establish close cooperation
Partnership by MOOQ and ICDE for shared vision on quality of Open Education
The European Alliance MOOQ and the global membership organization ICDE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a close cooperation. The two leading international initiatives for online learning confirm a shared quality vision and interest in the field of open education. Christian M. Stracke, MOOQ coordinator, and Gard Titlestad, ICDE Secretary General, who signed the MOU, are convinced that the collaboration will provide benefits for the whole community worldwide. A first focus will be the improvement of the quality of Open Education and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
„We are happy about this close cooperation with ICDE to facilitate high quality in Open Education and MOOCs in the future“, underlines Christian M. Stracke from the Open University of the Netherlands. And Gard Titlestad from ICDE adds: „ICDE is pleased to share the vision of Open Education and to collaborate with MOOQ in the development and consultation of a Quality Reference Framework for MOOCs.“
MOOQ Workshop on Quality of MOOCs at EC-TEL
The ICORE and MOOQ Workshop on Quality of MOOCs at EC-TEL is inviting you!
Join our interactive workshop on 13th of September 2016 at the EC-TEL Conference in Lyon!
The workshop is jointly organized by MOOQ and ICORE supported by UNESCO IITE, OEC and other organizations at the 11th EC-TEL Conference, the leading event on technology-enhanced learning.
The workshop title is: „How to improve Open Education with Openness for All? Towards a global joint initiative“