Name: Session 6C (Policy): Social Inclusion
Start: 2017-05-23T15:00:00+0200
End: 2017-05-23T16:30:00+0200

EMOOCs 2017 CONFERENCE
5th European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit
May 22- 26, 2017
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Leganés, Madrid, Spain)

Proceedings are available online:

Springer LNCS 10254 proceedings for the Research and Experience Tracks:
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-59044-8 (only available during 4 weeks since the start of the conference)
CEUR proceedings for Work in Progress Papers of the Research and Experience Tracks and Position Papers of the Policy Track:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1841/
CEUR proceedings for the Spanish Track/Actas de la Jornada en español EMOOCs-ES:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1836/

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Session 6C (Policy): Social Inclusion

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The (initial) philosophy of MOOCs is to open up quality higher education to a wider audience. As such, MOOCs are an important tool to achieve Goal 4 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This panel session will address the possibilities of how MOOCs can facilitate equality and inclusion and in some cases, specifically target increased social mobility and broader access to the critical thinking, multi-cultural and digital skills necessary for today’s workforce. The panel will discuss the promises behind MOOCs in general, address the opportunities they offer for society, and examine how they may impact society and those people who are (potentially) left behind.

Moderator and introducer:
Vincent Zimmer (Kiron, Germany)

Panelists:

Elizabeth Colucci, Jonatan Castaño-Muñoz, Axelle Devaux (EUA/ECJRC/Rand, Spain/Belgium): "MOOCs and Free Digital Learning for the Inclusion of migrants and refugees: A European policy study"
Sotiris Makrygiannis, Sixten Sandstrom, Lindsey Crumbaugh (Eliademy, Greece/SFV, Finland/Samaschool, USA): "MOOCs as a way to smoothen the side effects of globalisation"
Lauren Swerksy, Kara Behnke, Jade Mays (Coursera, USA): "Coursera for Refugees: Universal Access to World Class Education"
Axelle Devaux, Julie Belanger, Catriona Manville, Sarah Grand-Clement (Rand, Belgium/UK): "Digital learning’s role in enabling inclusive skills development"

Moderators

Vincent Zimmer

CEO and Co-Founder, Kiron University

Vincent Zimmer is a Co-Founder of Kiron Open Higher Education, a blended learning educational platform for refugees. He completed two master’s degree study programmes, “International Economics” at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and “Public Policy and Administration... Read More →

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