Radmila Segol: Prometheus.org.ua and KPI Distance Learning. German-Ukrainian Exchange on MOOCs
Channel: Learnopolis
Date: 24/06/2021

Join us for an exclusive interview with Radmila Segol, a PhD in social communication studies, associate professor at National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, and Editor-in-Chief and Chief Translation Officer at the Prometheus MOOC platform. In this interview, Radmila will discuss her work creating over 30 MOOCs and preparing 8 English-Ukrainian translations for the most popular MOOCs in the world.  She works as a MOOCs architect and an individual consultant at life-long learning and online education for the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine.

Prometheus is based on OpenEdX and was opened in 2014. Since then it has offered over 200 online courses to 1 500 000 listeners and handed out over 800.000 certificates and has become the biggest MOOC platform in Ukraine. The goal of Prometheus is to make Ukrainian education more adaptive, more flexible, more innovative. Their aim is to give access to better educating practices for all Ukrainians without limits of their age, sex, wealth status, etc.
WWW: https://prometheus.org.ua/

The National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" (KPI) is the largest technical university of Ukraine. Funded in 1898, today about 25,000 students study at 19 faculties and 7 institutes. During COVID-19 pandemic the University has launched it’s own online learning platform Sikorsky Distance.

The event is part of the German-Ukrainian project Learnopolis.net, which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).