Inge de Waard keynote on using MOOC in high school / secondary school
Channel: Inge de Waard - moves of a regular woman
Date: 2016-02-13

This keynote was given at ITSligo, Ireland, to highlight a project which integrates existing MOOC in k12 classrooms to increase digital skills and lifelong learning capacities for 16 - 17 year old students. This project uses a three step approach allowing young students to learn what MOOCs are, which platforms exist, and how to interact with others. At first there is a lot of teacher support, where at the end of the academic year, the students select and follow a MOOC of their own choosing. The course is given 2 hours a week and uses research instruments to evaluate the student's motivation. Three teachers and 42 students are part of this pilot project. Furthermore, the students in this project are all non-native English speakers, which is why we also used Content Language Integrated Learning approaches.