Focus - MOOC (part 2)
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Since 2012, the movement of MOOCs has led to the creation of online course portals that are very similar in content to those offered in presidential mode on the campuses of the best universities, open to all, without any prerequisites or access limits.
These pioneering initiatives, including in particular edX and Coursera, were quickly joined by numerous other portals, characterized either by a specialist thematic approach (such as Udacity, oriented towards ICT training) or by a national specificity, such as Futurelearn, born in Great Britain with the involvement of the Open University and the BBC, or as the FUN portal, promoted by the French Ministry of Education.
In Italy we can report the POK (Polimi Open Knowledge) portal of the Polytechnic of Milan, Federica of the Federico II University of Naples and Eduopen, created by a network of universities. In these platforms it is possible to find a huge variety and quantity of university-level online courses, in the vast majority of cases held by the same teachers who teach the specific content on campus. These are not simple didactic resources, but real courses which also include a final certification, often for a fee and, in an ever increasing number of cases, also connected to formal recognition.
These pioneering initiatives, including in particular edX and Coursera, were quickly joined by numerous other portals, characterized either by a specialist thematic approach (such as Udacity, oriented towards ICT training) or by a national specificity, such as Futurelearn, born in Great Britain with the involvement of the Open University and the BBC, or as the FUN portal, promoted by the French Ministry of Education.
In Italy we can report the POK (Polimi Open Knowledge) portal of the Polytechnic of Milan, Federica of the Federico II University of Naples and Eduopen, created by a network of universities. In these platforms it is possible to find a huge variety and quantity of university-level online courses, in the vast majority of cases held by the same teachers who teach the specific content on campus. These are not simple didactic resources, but real courses which also include a final certification, often for a fee and, in an ever increasing number of cases, also connected to formal recognition.