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The MOOC – Media and Digital Literacy is specifically targeted for university students 👨🏽‍🎓interested to improve their Media and Digital Literacy skills. 

However, teachers 👩🏻‍🏫 could also find useful sources for themselves and for their educational practices. 

Before starting the MOOC, you are required to take a quiz, that you consider as a way to pre-assess your skills. According to the score obtained, you will be suggested to start from the foundation level, intermediate level (this course) or advanced level. In each level, you will read texts, e-books or PDFs, watch videos and forums. Once all the tasks are completed, you will complete an e-assessment in order to obtain a badge that certifies your skills. You will receive your badge by email in approximately 24 hours.

The aim of the course is to help students to gain general knowledge about contemporary Lithuanian art and its historical and cultural contexts.

Having completed the course students will be able to:

• To define basic features and tendencies in Lithuanian theatre with reference to historical and cultural context;
• To define basic features and tendencies in Lithuanian cinema with reference to historical and cultural context;
• To define basic features and tendencies in Lithuanian fine art with reference to historical and cultural context;
• To define basic features and tendencies in Lithuanian photography with reference to historical and cultural context.

Topics:

• Lithuanian Theatre in the First Years of Independence: Change of Aesthetic Forms and Content.
• Contemporary Lithuanian Theatre and the main Creators: Directing, Dramaturgy, Scenography, Non-traditional Space.
• Lithuanian Cinema: Basic historical aspects, Directors, Genres and Themes.
• Lithuanian National Cinema: a Reflection of History and the Present.
• Contemporary Lithuanian Cinema: Animation; Interactive and Interdisciplinary Projects.
• Lithuanian art tradition.
• History and transformations of Lithuanian art.
• Lithuanian art in the context of societal transformations.
• The most famous Lithuanian artists.
• Contemporary Lithuanian art.
• Lithuanian School of Photography in The Context of Soviet Ideology.
• “Easthetics of Boredom” as the Passive Resistance to Soviet Regime.
• Contemporary Lithuanian Photography as The Research of Post-Soviet Reality.
• Photography in Contemporary Lithuanian Art: Interdisciplinary Approach.
• Lithuanian School of Photography Today: The Search for Identity in Global Context.

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The MOOC – Autonomy-driven learning is specifically targeted for university students 👨🏽‍🎓interested to improve their ability to organize their study in an autonomous way.

However, teachers 👩🏻‍🏫 could also find useful sources to re-use in their educational practices.

In the MOOC Autonomy-driven learning, you will acquire self-directedness in decision-making on your learning, self-regulation strategies, persistence and creativity in organizing your study, and flexible study strategies, independent of time and place.

Before starting the MOOC, you are required to take a quiz, that you consider as a way to pre-assess your skills. According to the score obtained, you will be suggested to start from the foundation level (this course), intermediate level or advanced level. In each level, you will read texts, e-books or PDFs, watch videos and forums. Once all the tasks are completed, you will complete an e-assessment in order to obtain a badge that certifies your skills. You will receive your badge by email in approximately 24 hours.

The MOOC – Intercultural skills is specifically targeted for university students 👨🏽‍🎓interested to improve their Intercultural skills both in learning and learning contexts.

However, teachers 👩🏻‍🏫 could also find useful sources for themselves and for their educational practices. 

This course is aimed to support the development of these intercultural skills:

1. Gaining cultural knowledge;

2. Understanding cultural perspectives;

3. Being able to deal with intercultural issues (in workplaces, at the university, in informal contexts and so on).

Furthermore, you will exchange knowledge with peers from different cultural settings. At the end of the course, you will acquire the ability to avoid cultural misunderstandings, by becoming more aware of the cultural prejudices.

Before starting the MOOC, you are required to take a quiz, that you consider as a way to pre-assess your skills. According to the score obtained, you will be suggested to start from the foundation level, intermediate level or advanced level (this course). In each level, you will read texts, e-books or PDFs, watch videos and forums. Once all the tasks are completed, you will complete an e-assessment in order to obtain a badge that certifies your skills. You will receive your badge by email in approximately 24 hours.