LMOOCs for university students on the move Erasmus Project

Project Title

LMOOCs for university students on the move

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 : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The main objective of the Mooc2move international partnership has been to develop language-learning material, helping students on the move to better integrate a French or a Spanish University. Two 6-week MOOCs (one for each language) were designed, tested and implemented three times.
These MOOCs put the stress on a “learning how to learn” approach. They contain an important number of video clips, most of them filmed in academic context and conveying methodological advice. As MOOCs have the disadvantage of only being available for a relatively short period of time, the videos and some pedagogical scenarios have been made available in free access as Open Educational Resources (OER).
These OER are classified according to the six topics addressed in each MOOC (for example “Interpreting figures”, “Doing a presentation”, “Documenting and quoting”, etc.) and made available for teachers of French or Spanish who will be able to freely integrate them into their lectures. Advice is given in scenarios and in a pedagogical guide on the project site (http://www.mooc2move.eu/oer.php). Autonomous students will also be able to take advantage of these OER.
The project has also organized two Scientific Conferences about MOOCs and language learning. The proceedings (33 selected papers) are stored on a scientific site, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/M2M/

The project lasted 32 months. The intellectual productions carried out are as follows:
IO1: French Academic Language MOOC, consisting of 6 modules of one week each. The pilot was run in Spring 2020, the first session in October-November 2020 and the second in April-May 2021
IO2: Spanish Academic Language MOOC, consisting of 6 modules of one week each.The pilot was run in Spring 2020, the first session in October-November 2020 and the second in April-May 2021
IO3: French academic discourse OER (Open Educational Resources), available on the portal website
IO4: Spanish academic discourse OER (Open Educational Resources), available on the portal website
IO5: Pedagogical Guide for integrating MOOCs and OER
IO6: Quadrilingual portal website (French, Spanish, Italian, English) for teaching languages with MOOCs or parts of MOOCs (http://www.mooc2move.eu/)
IO7: Edited, peer-reviewed volume about LMOOCs, freely accessible on HAL platform (https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/M2M/)

The dissemination plan has been based on the creation of a website (http://mooc2move.eu), the fulfilment of two international scientific conferences, relating calls for papers, online publication of the conference proceedings, and dissemination of project activities through the newsletters, the Internet and social media, as well as presenting the different outcomes of the project at several events.

The partnership included the following institutions:
*University of Grenoble Alpes, with the support of its Centre Universitaire d’Etudes Françaises, promoter and activity-leading organisation of IO1 with the tasks of creating the French MOOC and collaborating in preparing the Pedagogical guide for integrating MOOCs and OER. Also co-leader of the IO7.
*The Open University, responsible of the organization of the first international conference of the project, activity-leading organisation of IO2, with the task of creating the Spanish MOOC, and of IO7 with the task of editing all the selected research papers obtained as result of the two scientific conferences.
*The University of Bucharest, activity-leading organisation of IO3, with the tasks of testing and evaluating the MOOC in French and creating OER in French.
*The University of Alicante, activity-leading organisation of IO4, with the tasks of testing and evaluating the MOOC in Spanish and creating OER in Spanish.
*The University of Leon, activity-leading organisation of IO5 and responsible for managing the quality monitoring of the work, organizing the monitoring, evaluation, self-evaluation of all work carried out for this project.
*Federazione Nazionale Insegnanti Centro di iniziativa per l’Europa (FENICE), activity-leading organisation of IO6, with the tasks of designing and implementing the portal, managing the dissemination and organizing the second international conference of the project..

Project Website

http://www.mooc2move.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 331316 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE
• THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
• Federazione Nazionale Insegnanti Centro di iniziativa per l’Europa
• UNIVERSIDAD DE LEON
• UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI