EdCast – Future Learning Research Initiative

 

EdCast – Future Learning Research Initiative

Inviting collaborators:
Setting up a European Collaborative MOOCSs and Microlearning initative

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AIM

1. Joint project to solicit European research on MOOCs and micro-learning frameworks
2. Building a European MOOC research network: Learning at scale, challenges and opportunities
3. Incorporating Nordics, and incorporating Baltic stakeholders
4. Philosophies of learning@scale
5. Other

PROPOSAL
To pursue themes such as:

1. Issues of access
2. Issues of mobility
3. Issues of integration and participation
4. Emergent education realities in Europe
5. New orientations in the digital learning ecology

INVITATION

• EdCast and Future Learning Lab seeking European partners to set up a virtual research center
• Annual conference meetings •• Annual workshops, located in network member countries
• Working, global MOOC platform available through EdCast Future Learning Lab knowledge Cloud
• Open to pursuit and explorations of other MOOC platform providers
• Critical and comparative research on conditions and standards of MOOCs and micro-learning/bit-size learning
• Seeking European partners for a Europe-wide initiative with global reach and ambition

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To be developed at the World Learning Summit, South Norway, June 2016