Capacity to Organize Massive Public Educational Opportunities in Universities of Southeast Asia Erasmus Project

Project Title

Capacity to Organize Massive Public Educational Opportunities in Universities of Southeast Asia

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The role of a modern University in the society is dramatically changed due to economic, social and, as a matter of fact, technological revolutions we are living in. In contrast to a traditional Humbolt University model, Universities across the globe become knowledge service providers to the economy and society at large. In this context, the latest explosion of Massive Open Online educational services/Courses (MOOCs, 2012 was declared as a Year of MOOCs, NYT) is confirming the general trend and opens new avenues for linking Universities and their external customers via powerful ICT means. When Europe is one of the global leaders in MOOC technologies, this innovation is still to come to Southeast Asia and the mission of the COMPETEN-SEA project is to enable the transfer of European experiences to the local partner Universities. The overall project aim is to make a significant contribution towards strengthening relations between higher education systems in Southeast Asia and wider economic and social environment by building organizational, pedagogical and technical capacities in local Universities to design, develop, market and deliver MOOCs for various economic and social problems. The project will implement the following activities:- Regional MOOC SWOT analysis and feasibility study to identify best strategies for educational outreach using MOOCs- Intensive MOOC Capacity Building programme aimed at building local capacities to develop MOOCs addressing local educational needs and deliver them to target users- Development and evaluation of the system of MOOCs addressing urgent socio-economic development needs – Dissemination and awareness raising campaign addressing academic communities in the region, as well as other key stakeholders: policy makers, potential users of MOOCs (e.g. public bodies, NGOs, businesses, etc.), general public. Importantly, the project will undertake efforts to integrate the regional MOOC specialists with the European MOOC movement.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999135 Eur

Project Coordinator

OPEN UNIVERSITEIT NEDERLAND & Country: NL

Project Partners

• ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK
• UNIVERSITAS BRAWIDJAJA
• UNIVERSITAS SAM RATULANGI
• UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES SYSTEM
• UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES
• UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID