ACA / EUA Seminar on MOOCs.

The seminar, entitled Making sense of the MOOCs, will unpack the very concept of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Are MOOCs just „old wine in new bottles”? How are they different from traditional online distance learning initiatives? Who are the players and where are they from? What do MOOCs offer to the learners? How are MOOCs financed? What are the best or worst practices in the offering of MOOCs? What are the typical myths of MOOCs? What do MOOCs mean for Europe? Are MOOCs here to stay, or will they soon fade away?

Programme

Wednesday 9 October

19.00

Seminar dinner

Thursday 10 October

08.30	Registrations and coffee
09.15	Welcome and introduction Bernd Wächter, Director, ACA (Brussels, Belgium)
09.30	MOOCs. An introduction Tim Gore, Director Global Networks and Communities, University of London International (London, UK)
10.05	MOOCing higher education at home and abroad. Best practices and worst challenges. Rolf Hoffmann, Executive Director, German-American Fulbright Commission (Berlin, Germany)
10.40	Coffee break
11.00	European MOOCs in global context Kris Olds, Professor and Chairperson, University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA)
11.35	Funding MOOCs. Are the business models sustainable? William Lawton, Director, Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (Redhill, UK)
12.10	MOOCs: European perspectives Michael Gaebel, Head of the Higher Education Policy Unit, European University Association (EUA) (Brussels, Belgium)
12.45	Sandwich lunch
13.45	„Traditional” Open and Distance Learning:what is out there, how do the MOOCs fit in? Joran van Aart, Director of Student Value, Studyportals (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
14.20	MOOCs made in Europe: iversity Hannes Klöpper, Managing Director, iversity GmbH (Berlin, Germany)
15.00	Coffee break
15.15	EADTU's OpenupEd initiative Fred Mulder, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) (Heerlen, The Netherlands)
15.50	MOOCs at the Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne Karl Aberer, Vice-President for Information Systems, EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
16.25	Student-faculty interaction in the MOOC environment Daniel McFarland, Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education (online) (Stanford, USA)
17.00	Conclusions and farewell Bernd Wächter, Director, ACA (Brussels Belgium)

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