Name: MOOC: an occasional phenomenon or a revolution in the world of education?
Start: 2013-06-11T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2013-06-11T13:30:00+02:00
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

About the event

06/11/2013 09:30

Auditori, c/Roc Boronat,138

Keywords:: catedra; Mooc; telefonica

Jornada de las Cátedras de Telefónica UPF/UPC

 Introduction

 Until recently nobody knew about this phenomenon: The MOOC. The Massive Open Online Courses. It has been when worldwide prestigious American universities have started to launch these courses when the alarm bells have been set off.

 It is not the same competing in local than in global scale with top worldwide universities.

 Online universities have always existed, and the massive content since the advent of the Internet, has increased. However, the hallmark on the contents of a large university is making it new.

 In this context, several questions arise regarding that phenomenon:

 On one hand we have the academia: is the quality of the contents sufficient to access a good education? How does the faculty look at this new type of training? Is this methodology an issue only for on line universities?

 On the other hand we have the companies: how companies perceive such training? Will they evaluate them as central knowledge or it will be just considered as complementary skills?

 At this conference we aim to first understand exactly the scope of the phenomenon of the MOOC, we want experts to tell us what areas are intended to cover and finally explain the vision of companies and analyze the opinions of their human resources departments and their possible evolution in Latin America.

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