From Virtual Mobility to MOOCs: drawing on UbiCamp experience to set up a network for massive open online courses

Online course and MOOCs, are revolutionising education worldwide, while a shift is taking place in education as concerns delivery modes, from face-to-face classes to online patterns. Distance education, bothe int Virtual mobility mode and with the MOOCs offers students the opportunity of learning and gaining experience in international environments, without moving from their home or study place. The aim of this paper is to draft the possibility of transferring the courses realized in the UbiCamp project, which implemented a pilot project of Virtual mobility among seven universities, into a MOOC network, by identifying and overcoming the advantages and limitations, in order to explore the effective ways to combine the universities’ online offer, as well as to describe the two modes of learning experience for the student (face-to-face interactions and self-paced online tuition), to make this a customary way of cooperating among universities.

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