Patrizia Roma is an Italian English teacher, teacher trainer for new technologies and has been an avid European Schoolnet Academy MOOC participant since 2014. She found herself in our recently concluded Active Learning and Innovative Teaching in Flexible Learning Spaces MOOC where participants explored ways to bring the classroom to Read more…
In our last blog post, we explained how we studied and compared the scores and feedback given through expert and peer assessments in our TeachUP courses. Now that we established their differences, in this blog we turn to the question of fairness and usefulness, as perceived by course participants. We Read more…
Because of the large number of participants on MOOCs, peer assessment, as opposed to instructor assessment, is usually considered the only viable option to assess any participants’ work that is of a more substantive nature, such as a digital artefact or an essay. This led us to the question: are Read more…
Improving digital skills, entrepreneurship, and interest in a STEM career has been a priority for the European Union, especially since the COVID pandemic when life essentially went online. The bloc sees investment in education as one of the best ways to promote a STEM career. One crucial aspect remains: how Read more…
Living in what some people claim to be a “post-truth” era, more of us now can get news from sites that would not be considered “legacy media”, like well-known newspapers and broadcasters. For those growing up in this era, learning to determine what news is real and trustworthy will be Read more…
With a re-run of our Digital Cultural Heritage MOOC already underway, we wanted to explore: what is exactly digital cultural heritage and how can you integrate it into the classroom? Our colleagues with Europeana, the partner organization behind the course, explain how far Europe has gotten in process in digitizing Read more…
Just a few weeks ago, EUN Academy’s Spring 2022 catalogue became available, listing all the exciting new MOOCs we’re launching. But before we fully jump into 2022, we’re going to take a look at some of our numbers and most important moments of 2021. 10 MOOCs; 9,500 participants; and an Read more…