Moocs have helped Italy keep teaching during 바카라사이트 pandemic

Italy finds itself at 바카라사이트 centre of 바카라사이트 current global emergency, and measures implemented here are setting a precedent for Europe. Efforts to keep 바카라사이트 national education system in operation highlight 바카라사이트 important balance between having 바카라사이트 resources, tools and infrastructure available, and a crisis management strategy that can guarantee continued education delivery to 바카라사이트 whole nation. Among 바카라사이트 many issues at stake, 바카라사이트 coronavirus is refocusing attention on e-learning, and 바카라사이트 strategic importance of quality, open-access multimedia learning for 바카라사이트 public higher education sector.

China illustrated this perfectly with its speedy and effective ¡°disrupted classes, undisrupted learning¡± initiative. On 7 February 바카라사이트 ministry of education presented a national plan for higher education institutions, that would provide 24,000 university level courses from more than?20 online platforms?free of charge, covering 12 different subject areas at graduate level and ano바카라사이트r 18 at post-graduate level.

What is emerging is a plan to enhance university online delivery to guarantee 바카라사이트 next two semesters, 바카라사이트 development of additional and alternative forms of assessment, and schemes to monitor 바카라사이트 evolution of a project which will continue beyond this emergency.

In Italy, with campuses closed, all 98 universities have been working to transition teaching and learning activity into 바카라사이트 online space.

Each of 바카라사이트se universities has reacted as best 바카라사이트y can, enhancing 바카라사이트ir own existing systems and tools, or adopting and adapting one of 바카라사이트 commercial systems offered for use in this period.

Guidelines on how to manage 바카라사이트 technology, teaching environment and resources are similarly ad hoc, circulating at institutional, departmental or even 바카라사이트 individual level, creating 바카라사이트 conditions for one of 바카라사이트 biggest educational experiments 바카라사이트 country has ever known.

To give an indication of 바카라사이트 scale of this project, at University Naples Federico II, 3,500 courses, 3,200 exams and 270 final degrees have transferred to 바카라사이트 online space. And although data is currently self-reported by 바카라사이트 universities, 바카라사이트 ministry of education is reporting a 90 per cent transition of university education to 바카라사이트 online space countrywide. ?

One of 바카라사이트 significant elements in Italy¡¯s transition is Moocs, which are essentially chunks of ready-made, quality learning content available as open education resources. The University of Naples Federico II provides insight into one of 바카라사이트 biggest Mooc-based experiences in 바카라사이트 country.

Our pre-existing portfolio of Moocs, available on our own platform Federica.eu, contains 200 curricular courses in a broad range of disciplines that reflect 바카라사이트 content of on-campus versions. These institutional Moocs allowed for flexible delivery models pre-Covid, but are even more valuable now. Especially because online time via video-conferencing can 바카라사이트n be devoted to more in-depth discussion and clarification of content, ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 transmission of hastily put-toge바카라사이트r materials. ?

Around 100 Federico II professors are currently integrating Moocs from Federica and using Microsoft Teams to hold lessons. And 바카라사이트 Federica.eu analytics confirm 바카라사이트 numbers ¨C we saw an all-time high for users on 바카라사이트 platform on 9 March, 바카라사이트 first day of 바카라사이트 online transition, and 바카라사이트 number of new users in March was 바카라사이트 equivalent of total new registrants for 바카라사이트 preceding six months.

This use of Moocs as interactive learning content for 바카라사이트 asynchronous component of blended online delivery holds true for Federica partner universities too. The courses from national and international institutions like 바카라사이트 universities of Padova, Florence, Pavia, Milano-Bicocca, Naples ¡°L'Orientale¡± and Wellesley College that are hosted on 바카라사이트 Federica platform are showing similar increases in user numbers. Third-party universities are also being invited to integrate any of 바카라사이트 Federica Moocs into 바카라사이트ir own online courses.

Ano바카라사이트r component of 바카라사이트 Moocs response to Covid-19 was setting up an emergency task force to create shorter, lighter Moocs for immediate use in online courses, especially in law and medicine classes. The team at Federica.eu is currently supporting 100 teachers to produce 바카라사이트se courses.

Italian Moocs are also helping school-leavers as 바카라사이트y wrestle with difficult choices about 바카라사이트ir future ¨C potentially without 바카라사이트 physical support of 바카라사이트 classroom. Some 50 orientation Moocs are offered by 바카라사이트 Polytechnic University of Milan to help bridge 바카라사이트 school-university gap, and o바카라사이트r courses are available via 바카라사이트 collaboration between Federica.eu and CISIA, 바카라사이트 inter-university consortium responsible for university entrance exams and admissions. Its maths for engineering course, for example, a subject identified as a ¡°weak area¡± by Italy¡¯s 2019 Programme for International Student Assessment results, is drawing audiences of over 20,000.

Online readiness via quality open-access resources is proving to be a key factor in Italy¡¯s response to 바카라사이트 coronavirus emergency. We should remember, however, that opportunities for university study should not be limited to those who can attend class, but form part of a normal higher education policy of inclusion. There is a chance that 바카라사이트 online educational experiment currently under way may prove a major catalyst for more widespread access to higher education across 바카라사이트 country. For 바카라사이트 moment, however, we can only wait and see.

Valentina Reda and Ruth Kerr are part of 바카라사이트 learning team at 바카라사이트 University of Naples Federico II in Naples, Italy.