Joining Forces Toward Social Inclusion

The expansion of MOOCs (massive open online courses) is very much associated with instructors interested in the craft teaching, innovating, and experimenting different methods to improve expand students’ learning experience. Erasmus+ project MOONLITE has worked create cross-institutional scenarios new educational pathways for migrants refugees, devising, among other things, two Spanish language (LMOOCs). They are product joint efforts university academics, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), refugee support groups (RSGs), together volunteers, migrants, who formed a community order design courses that effectively addressed needs refugees arriving Spain. Using thinking process, all parties involved attempted collaboratively identify strategies solutions given problem might not be obvious upon first inspection; this case, specific linguistic country. Results show continuum academics— NGOs/RSGs—volunteers—refugees/migrants was highly effective learners, an overall completion rate both 96%. participants’ perception these helped them their goal integrating into life Spain key situations, such as communicating job interview or understanding process looking accommodation completing bureaucratic procedures.