Home > dgCommunities  > Open Educational Resource... > News > Year news
News Item Details
  View All
NetGeners.Net pilot course: The ne(x)t generation learner
Description:
This global web based course is supposed to be an open and participatory learning experience that involves practical ‘hands-on’ sessions where your learning activities and the things you create will become a part of the course.


It is geared at students, teachers and free learner outside of formal education who would like to become knowledgeable ne(x)t generation learners able to update their skills and knowledge self-dependently within a lifelong learning context.


The course is free: free to attend without any charge, free of cost for books or other materials, free for anyone independently of prior education; and free in terms of your personal time commitment that you decide to dedicate to it.


NetGeners.Net is a pilot course that will start on March 17th for the first time and for participants that live in the greater area of Porto (Portugal) the course team can organize regular monthly or bi-monthly face2face learning sessions in the case of interest.


There will be a virtual introduction week from the 17th to the 23rd of March and an additional blended face2face / virtual introductory workshop that is preliminary scheduled for Wednesday the 12th of March at the University of Porto, Portugal (please check the course website for final confirmation).


This course will be run by Andreas Meiszner (a.meiszner@open.ac.uk)

Research fellow at Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK

Project Coordinator of the European Union funded FLOSSCom project

Source:
http://www.netgeners.net
Language: English
Country: None
Release Date: February 27, 2008
Archive Date: February 28, 2009
Submitted By: Andreas Meiszner
 
NetGeners.Net pilot cours... | Oer_public | Development Gateway