Task based MOOC design: challenges and opportunities
The EMMA project joined the Open Education week 2016 with a webinar on designing instruction in massive online education according to the principles of task-centred design (Merrill, 2002, 2007). Dr...
View ArticleNew EMMA MOOC: Digital library in principle and practice
The EMMA MOOC “Digital Library in principle and practice” starting on 12 April is intended to help learners understand what a digital library is, how it works and how collections can be used and...
View ArticleEMMA presented at Opening Up Education Conference in the Netherlands
The Welten Institute, Research Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology of the Open University Netherlands held a welcomed around 60 students of the Master of Science program in Educational...
View ArticleNew release of transcription-translation platform by UPV
The Universitat Politècnica de València’s MLLP research group is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of the open source transLectures-UPV Platform (TLP) for the integration of automated...
View ArticleMOOC Adolescent Brain kicked-off, over 1200 learners
The new EMMA MOOC Adolescent Brain: Brain, Lifestyle and Learning was launched on the EMMA platform on 14 April. This MOOC is designed by a team of researchers of the Open University Netherlands led by...
View ArticleDigital library MOOC Newsletter
The MOOC Digital library in principle and practice started on 12 April and now has an community of almost 500 learners. Every week the teachers publish a newsletter with the main highlights,...
View ArticleThe April EMMA Newsletter is out!
EMMA call to action: send in your MOOC proposal before 30 May The EMMA platform has been a busy place lately, we now have more then 20.000 users on EMMA, who are studying diverse subjects like the...
View ArticleCall to action: Run your MOOC on EMMA for free!
The EMMA project is launching a call to potential new MOOC providers who would like to run their MOOCs in a new multilingual environment for free. Requests to participate in this exciting educational...
View ArticleThe Inclusive Power of Coding on EMMA
by Alessandro Bogliolo, University of Urbino, Italy What is happening in these last months is unprecedented in my experience and I have the privilege of being at the centre of where things are...
View ArticleL@S16 conference: Designing for Open Learning: Design Principles and Scalability
EMMA Partners from the open University, Netherlands presented their paper at the L@S16 conference in Edinburgh end of April. The paper Designing for Open Learning: Design Principles and Scalability...
View ArticleBootcamp EMMA MOOC Assessment for learning in practice at EDEN
A special bootcamp training on the topic of Assessment for learning in practice, one of the EMMA MOOCs, will be organised prior or at the EDEN Conference. The MOOC Assessment for learning in practice...
View ArticleThe Université de Bourgogne MOOCs are back on EMMA !
After a first successful session on EMMA in spring 2015 followed by other sessions in winter 2015, the MOOC #OWU (Open Wine University) and the MOOC DCW (Digital Culture and Writing) are back! These...
View ArticleHow to make a European MOOC platform sustainable?
by Carmen Padron-Napoles & Lydia Montandon, ATOS, Spain We are reaching the end of our European Project EMMA and, although the sustainability of the platform has been a concern throughout the...
View ArticleThe May EMMA Newsletter is out!
In this newsletter we look to the future, where we are now and what will happen next, or in other words: How to make a European MOOC platform sustainable? Read more in our feature article by EMMA...
View ArticleAre you designing a MOOC? The EMMA Framework can help!
The EMMA 5D MOOC framework is a way to describe the full cycle of MOOC creation and delivery. By identifying 5 stages of MOOC implementation (Decide; Design; Develop; Deliver; and Document), the...
View ArticleHybrid MOOC Environment presented by EMMA at #eden16
EMMA contributed to the EDEN conference which was held from 14 to 17 June in Budapest with two poster sessions around the highly successful MOOC on coding and a bootcamp workshop on Assessment for...
View ArticleWhat does cultural diversity & multilingualism mean in a time of digital...
EMMA will soon be heading to EDULEARN16, the 8th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, to be held in Barcelona on 4 – 6 July. EDULEARN is one of the largest...
View ArticleThe June EMMA Newsletter is out!
The European project funding to EMMA will officially come to an end in July but the platform europeanmoocs.eu will continue delivering MOOCs in 2016 – 2017. After the call to action for new MOOCs, lots...
View ArticleForum on the need for a European MOOC Strategy
About 70 people from all over Europe took part in a really interesting forum organised by the HOME project in Brussels on 29 June. A mix of policy-makers, policy-influencers, MOOC activists and...
View ArticleNew EMMA webinar: Sharing the experience of the EMMA platform. Looking to the...
We are delighted to invite you to take part in the webinar series organised by EMMA. This series features talks with experts in the MOOC world about various topics including trends in Europe, good...
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