Reports from the Field: Exploring the Potential of Online Courses to Develop Capacity for Sustainable Development

A small team of independent entrepreneurs has developed two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in French, on sustainable development that attracted, respectively, 250+ and 150+ participants. This article describes the original intentions and formats of the MOOCs as well as their actual performance...

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Autor principal:	Jean-Roger Mercier
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Commonwealth of Learning 2014
Materias:	elearning capacity development africa mooc Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d32e77fbaf5e428b8ee3a49f970ea6b22021-12-03T23:46:04ZReports from the Field: Exploring the Potential of Online Courses to Develop Capacity for Sustainable Development2311-1550https://doaj.org/article/d32e77fbaf5e428b8ee3a49f970ea6b22014-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/63https://doaj.org/toc/2311-1550A small team of independent entrepreneurs has developed two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in French, on sustainable development that attracted, respectively, 250+ and 150+ participants. This article describes the original intentions and formats of the MOOCs as well as their actual performance. With little publicity, the courses revealed strong buy-in by the participants and resulted in both a high percentage of completion and degree of satisfaction. In conclusion, the author estimates that MOOCs have the potential to provide the impetus needed in initial and vocational training to respond to the challenges of capacity development, highlighted in the Post-2015 Development Agenda and in reflections on Africa like the “Madavo Report” (2005) on capacity buidling in Africa.Jean-Roger MercierCommonwealth of Learningarticleelearningcapacity developmentafricamoocTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENJournal of Learning for Development, Vol 1, Iss 2 (2014)
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description	A small team of independent entrepreneurs has developed two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in French, on sustainable development that attracted, respectively, 250+ and 150+ participants. This article describes the original intentions and formats of the MOOCs as well as their actual performance. With little publicity, the courses revealed strong buy-in by the participants and resulted in both a high percentage of completion and degree of satisfaction. In conclusion, the author estimates that MOOCs have the potential to provide the impetus needed in initial and vocational training to respond to the challenges of capacity development, highlighted in the Post-2015 Development Agenda and in reflections on Africa like the “Madavo Report” (2005) on capacity buidling in Africa.
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title_short	Reports from the Field: Exploring the Potential of Online Courses to Develop Capacity for Sustainable Development
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Reports from the Field: Exploring the Potential of Online Courses to Develop Capacity for Sustainable Development

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