TY  - JOUR
A1  - Giannatelli, Ada
A1  - Tomasini, Alessandra
A2  - Meinel, Christoph
A2  - Schweiger, Stefanie
A2  - Staubitz, Thomas
A2  - Conrad, Robert
A2  - Alario Hoyos, Carlos
A2  - Ebner, Martin
A2  - Sancassani, Susanna
A2  - Żur, Agnieszka
A2  - Friedl, Christian
A2  - Halawa, Sherif
A2  - Gamage, Dilrukshi
A2  - Scott, Jeffrey
A2  - Kristine Jonson Carlon, May
A2  - Deville, Yves
A2  - Gaebel, Michael
A2  - Delgado Kloos, Carlos
A2  - von Schmieden, Karen
T1  - Descriptors and EU Standards to support the recognition of MOOCs
T2  - EMOOCs 2023 : Post-Covid Prospects for Massive Open Online Courses - Boost or Backlash?
N2  - Digital technologies have enabled a variety of learning offers that opened new challenges in terms of recognition of formal, informal and non-formal learning, such as MOOCs.
This paper focuses on how providing relevant data to describe a MOOC is conducive to increase the transparency of information and, ultimately, the flexibility of European higher education.
The EU-funded project ECCOE took up these challenges and developed a solution by identifying the most relevant descriptors of a learning opportunity with a view to supporting a European system for micro-credentials. Descriptors indicate the specific properties of a learning opportunity according to European standards. They can provide a recognition framework also for small volumes of learning (micro-credentials) to support the integration of non-formal learning (MOOCs) into formal learning (e.g. institutional university courses) and to tackle skills shortage, upskilling and reskilling by acquiring relevant competencies. The focus on learning outcomes can facilitate the recognition of skills and competences of students and enhance both virtual and physical mobility and employability.
This paper presents two contexts where ECCOE descriptors have been adopted: the Politecnico di Milano MOOC platform (Polimi Open Knowledge – POK), which is using these descriptors as the standard information to document the features of its learning opportunities, and the EU-funded Uforest project on urban forestry, which developed a blended training program for students of partner universities whose MOOCs used the ECCOE descriptors.
Practice with ECCOE descriptors shows how they can be used not only to detail MOOC features, but also as a compass to design the learning offer. In addition, some rules of thumb can be derived and applied when using specific descriptors.
KW  - Digitale Bildung
KW  - Kursdesign
KW  - MOOC
KW  - Micro Degree
KW  - Online-Lehre
KW  - Onlinekurs
KW  - Onlinekurs-Produktion
KW  - digital education
KW  - e-learning
KW  - micro degree
KW  - micro-credential
KW  - online course creation
KW  - online course design
KW  - online teaching
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62396
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-623967
SP  - 133
EP  - 146
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -