Participant - EDEN NAP webinar: 2017 Open education for refugees – Optimizing diversity through MOOCs

Participant - EDEN NAP webinar: 2017 Open education for refugees – Optimizing diversity through MOOCs

This badge is awarded to people who attended the"2017 Open education for refugees – Optimizing diversity through MOOCs" webinar organised by EDEN on 19 April 2017.

This badge is awarded to people who attended the "2017 Open education for refugees – Optimizing diversity through MOOCs" webinar organised by EDEN.

Resources: More information on the webinar / Webinar recording

Date: 19 April 2017

Webinar introduction

How can open education, in particular MOOCs, offer relevant solutions to help refugees gain access to higher education and employment in their new homelands?

Refugees face legal, linguistic, cultural, institutional and financial barriers to enter higher education. Furthermore, traditional universities can only offer places to a certain number of students, with funded places even rarer, and seldom have the capacity to cope with large numbers of refugees in a short time. The lengthy process of seeking asylum is lost time for most refugees. Utilizing MOOCs to support refugees in entering HE or employment market is a strategy to currently being explored by various initiatives in line with ECs communication 2013 “wider use of new technology and open educational resources can contribute to alleviating costs for educational institutions and for students, especially among disadvantaged groups”