DEVELOPING AND MONITORING A MOOC: THE IFRC EXPERIENCE
DEVELOPING AND MONITORING A MOOC: THE IFRC EXPERIENCE

Summary/Abstract: A growing number of online courses are created and rolled-out worldwide, to cover the increasing need for skills and knowledge acquisition, to replace face-to-face training, to set up new professional development paths, migrating to a more efficient way to provide understanding, awareness and insight to larger categories of beneficiaries. In this respect, specific frameworks and procedures are developed within (education and training) institutions, to ensure the alignment with technical and education standards and to monitor learning, learning outcomes and usability of online courses in order to continuously improve the quality. The paper is depicting the extent to which the IFRC e-learning initiative has undergone several stages of development, surmounting challenges and succeeding to reach almost 150 courses open for around 120.000 learners. It describes the latest developments on the IFRC Learning platform, focusing on the pedagogy grounding these developments. The goal is not to provide participants with a recipe for what to do, but to teach participants that they need to fully understand the situation they are facing, evaluate it, identify possible responses and choose the most appropriate solution. Therefore, a comprehensive checklist was created based on the previous experience of 7 years of developing courses, consisting of more than 30 criteria guiding the set-up of a significant and pleasant learning path within the platform, related to relevance, accessibility, pedagogical approach, content, and institutional value. Furthermore, several reflections on what a quality online learning means nowadays are briefly reminded in the article, as part of our efforts to establish learning approaches suitable for the more attitudinal and values based learning.

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