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The open and online nature of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) can be a way to improve the success and efficiency of formal educational paths in Higher Education because the MOOC model provides a flexible approach that promotes different ways of learning. However, teachers must be trained and confident so that they can fully explore the methodologies, tools and resources that result from the integration of MOOCs into a formal curricula. This article reports the results of a MOOC-based training program, created and implemented in the scope of a European project, aimed at enabling teachers from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to develop and deliver MOOCs. The training clearly contributed to increasing the teachers’ competences related to those objectives and was a relevant component for their professional development namely in terms of adopting innovating teaching practices.
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This study was partly funded by the European Union, through the Erasmus+ program, project “Curricular modernization by implementing MOOCs model” (MODE IT), ref. 2019-1-DE01-KA203-005051.
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Vaz de Carvalho, C. et al. (2023). Using a MOOC to Train Teachers to Design and Deliver MOOCs. In: González-González, C.S., et al. Learning Technologies and Systems. ICWL SETE 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13869. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33023-0_18
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