Developing a MOOC for the learning of mobile app design: the appskil project
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Jose Manuel Pastor Benlloch, Laura Uxera Cotano, 
Jose Luis Soler DomínguezAuthors Info & Claims
Jose Manuel Pastor Benlloch, Laura Uxera Cotano, Jose Luis Soler DomínguezAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 573 - 578
Abstract
The design of new curricula must be focused on employability. For that aim, educational institutions and public administrations have to cooperate to develop training contents with professional associations and enterprises where students will perform the skills and competences learnt. For that reason, from the European Commission Erasmus+ Programme, curriculum development from the international cooperation is being promoted promoted since the last few years.
The objective of the AppSkil Project is the development of a curriculum in the new field of app development for mobile devices. These contents are adapted to be provided as a MOOC course. In order to achieve this, a survey among more than 100 European companies in the sector of mobile app development has been made to determine the skill mismatches as well as focusing on them the new contents. This project is part of a new catalogue for developing contents adapted for the new training platform as MOOC's. In this paper, we present the results that have succeeded to develop the learning objectives and the curriculum structure from the data analysis obtained from the surveys.
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