EUROPEAN INITIATIVES FOR MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES - CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR BULGARIAN UNIVERSITIES
EUROPEAN INITIATIVES FOR MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES - CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR BULGARIAN UNIVERSITIES

Author(s): Mariya Monova-Zheleva, Mariya Hristova, Yanislav Zhelev
Subject(s): Education, Education and training
Published by: Бургаски свободен университет
Keywords: MOOC; Open Educational Resources; Open Education; Online Course; MOOCs’ Certification; Validation and recognition of MOOCs
Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at presenting the current state of the European initiatives for Massive Open Online Courses /MOOCs/ in Higher Education /HE/ domain. The accent is put on the prospects and challenges for the inclusion of the Bulgarian Universities in the current MOOCs movement. The overview of the existing MOOCs initiatives in HE as well as the information and data presented in this paper are results of an extensive survey and research conducted in the framework of the international project BizMOOC1.

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