Webbinarium: Öppen utbildning för nyanlända – ITHUs nya webb

From Google Translate: "Welcome to our next webinar about how to open online courses (eg MOOCs) can be used to help newcomers settle and get into the education system. Webinar, Open education for refugees - Optimizing diversity through MOOCs,  held in English and take place Wednesday, April 19th 15:00 to 16:00.

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Open education for refugees - optimizing diversity through MOOCs

Refugees face legal, linguistic, cultural, institutional and financial barriers to enter higher education. Further More, traditional universities can only sacrifice places to A Certain number of students, with funded places even rarer, and seldom have the capacity to cope with large numbers of refugees in a short time. The lengthy process of seeking asylum is lost time for most refugees. Utilizing MOOCs to support refugees in entering HE or employment market is a strategy to documents currently being Explored by various Initiatives in line with ECs communication 2013 'Wider use of new technology and Open Educational Resources Can Contribute to alleviating costs for educational institutions and for students, especially Among disadvantaged groups'

The current Erasmus + project Moonlite (Massive Open Online Courses Enhancing linguistic and Transversal Skills for Social Inclusion and Employability) AIMS to address the question of how open education, In particular MOOCs, can sacrifice viable solutions for refugees and Contribute to better integration and improved employment prospects ."