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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 (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.

Collaborative learning is a situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together.

The MOOC – Collaborative Learning is specifically targeted for teachers 👩🏻‍🏫 interested to adopt collaborative learning techniques in their classrooms.

However, students 👨🏽‍🎓could also find useful sources to manage their group and collaborative activities in educational settings. 

In this MOOC you will enhance your teamwork skills by collaborating and exchanging knowledge with peers from different disciplines.

In addition, you will collaborate with peers in a digital and international learning environment through different learning methodologies.

Your learning experience will be quite different from learning offline in your own country.

All in all, you will interact with authentic international resources in a foreign language (accessing libraries and databases in a foreign language).

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.

Vous êtes inscrit(e) dans une formation universitaire à distance, pour réaliser votre projet personnel ou professionnel.

Afin de vous accompagner vers la réussite de ce projet, ce dispositif vous permettra d’acquérir ou de vous réapproprier une méthode de travail adaptée aux études universitaires.

Pour certains d’entre vous, vous allez avoir à concilier vie personnelle, vie professionnelle et vie d’apprenant. Ces outils vous aideront à optimiser votre temps d’études.

Pour relever ce défi, vous allez devoir appréhender de nouveaux modes de travail et de nouveaux outils.

 

Ce module aborde les éléments suivants :

• La motivation et le projet d’études
• La gestion du temps
• Les méthodes de travail
• Les examens et rendus écrits
• Les techniques d’apprentissage

Son muchas las declaraciones de universidades, docentes y estudiantes que reclaman una educación que aborde los actuales problemas socio ambientales. Las universidades tienen una importante responsabilidad que no pueden ignorar. Los docentes, por nuestra parte debemos ser capaces de reorientar nuestra actividad y capacitar a nuestros estudiantes para ejercer una ciudadanía responsable y desempeñar su profesionalidad acorde a las necesidades que plantea una realidad compleja y poliédrica.

En el presente curso se aborda la introducción a la sostenibilización curricular, ofreciendo las bases teóricas así como herramientas prácticas y ejemplos útiles para todos los docentes, independientemente de su área de conocimiento. ¡Únete al cambio!

Objetivos

• Facilitar la comprensión de las problemáticas ambientales desde una perspectiva sistémica.
• Mostrar la necesidad de trabajar hacia la sostenibilidad desde la educación superior.
• Introducir la Agenda 2030 y los 17 ODS como herramienta de trabajo hacia la sostenibilidad.
• Estimular el interés de los docentes por la sostenibilización curricular ofreciendo pautas básicas y herramientas para su implementación.

Temario

Tema 1.- La problemática socioambiental

Tema 2.- Estrategias para el desarrollo sostenible

Tema 3.- La Agenda 2030 de Naciones Unidas

Tema 4.- Universidad y sostenibilidad

Tema 5.- ¿Cómo integrar la sostenibilidad en la docencia universitaria?

Sistema de evaluación

El curso se compone de ejercicios de autoevaluación. El usuario deberá superar el 50% del curso para poder tramitar la acreditación.

Robotics and computational thinking are valuable tools for developing the pedagogy of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and for promoting the inclusion and integration of students. We currently have a multitude of robotic teaching tools at our disposal. These tools arise with the aim of promoting innovation and motivation of students during the learning process. Robots are more and more common in today’s society. Therefore, it is important to integrate robots at all levels of our daily lives. This course focuses on the presentation of a combination of teaching methodologies, educational robotics tools and a student learning management methodology. All of this is focused on strengthening the presence of women in engineering.

This course is developed in collaboration with the IEEE Education Society, the DIECCTQAI (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department) of the UNED, the IEEE, the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society, the IEEE Student Branch of the UNED and Plaza Robotica.

Objectives 
As part of this course, you’ll learn about:

• The value and relevance of including women and other underrepresented groups in engineering education and STEAM careers;
• Active teaching methods and project-based learning focused on robotics and related STEAM activities;
• Robotics tools, including the user interface environments of Scratch, Crumble, and Arduino;
• Concepts that facilitate the deployment of robotics tools in an educational environment; and
• Methods for student learning management.

As part of this course, you’ll learn how to:

• Create simple robotics applications using a variety of instruments;
• Integrate robotics and related STEAM activities into classroom or online instruction; and
• Manage this same instruction to present concepts effectively, offer constructive feedback, monitor student progress, and motivate students from underrepresented populations.

Topics

Module 0: Presentation of the course: introduction to the course. Throughout this part will be presented in course content. Estimated dedication less than 1 hour.

Module 1: Special interventions on women in engineering. Videos of experts giving their point of view about women in engineering. Estimated dedication of 2 hours.

Module 2: Gender and STEAM: During this topic there is an introduction to gender, diversity, and inclusion in STEAM. Furthermore, the design co-educational practices for STEAM is included. Additionally, the inclusive design and project-based learning in STEAM projects is detailed. Finally, the application of gender and value-sensitive design in STEAM projects is shown. Estimated dedication of 4 hours.

Module 3: Electronic instrumentation in learning environments: As part of this topic, different types of electronic instrumentation commonly used in the electronics industry are discussed to be integrated into the classroom and a series of elements are provided that users can use to make applications in the context of STEAM and educational robotics. Once this topic is finished it is possible to make simple applications with any of the instrumentation dealt with throughout this topic. Estimated dedication of 4 hours.

Module 4: Educational Robotics Tools: Within the content of this topic the Scratch, Crumble and Arduino tools are introduced. This is a first contact of these tools. Part of the topic describes the user interface environments and provides a series of elements that users can use to make applications in the context of STEAM and educational robotics. Once this topic is finished, it is possible to make simple applications with any of the three educational robotics tools. Estimated dedication of 4 hours.

Module 5: Deploying educational content with Scratch, Crumble and Arduino: Know educational content using Scratch, Crumble and Arduino. Throughout this topic we show examples of educational application with each of the educational robotics tools Scratch, Crumble and Arduino. Examples of educational content display related to STEAM and educational robotics in the classroom are described. At the end of this topic it is possible to create educational content related to STEAM and educational robotics to be displayed in the classroom. Estimated dedication of 4 hours.

Module 6: Student Learning Management: As part of this topic a student learning management methodology is presented. With the content of this topic is detailed how to manage the learning process of students, how to manage the educational content deployed in the classroom and how to improve the educational content already deployed using the information acquired from the educational results obtained. At the end of this topic it will be possible to manage the learning process of the students and to manage the educational contents and their life cycle from one course to the next. Estimated dedication of 4 hours.

Module 7: Lessons learned and conclusions: This topic addresses the lessons learned from this course and summarizes the conclusions. Estimated dedication of 2 hours

The next edition of the course will be in 2023 in UNED Abierta platform: https://iedra.uned.es/