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A MOOC’s internationalization: finding one’s place within globalization while representing it

This presentation aims to share with FAUBAI's participants the development of a new form of institutional and academic cooperation with digital tools through the production of multilingual academic contents massively accessible to a diverse audience.
If accepted, the parallel session will be presented by Professor Marie-Françoise Durand, teacher and Head of l’Atelier de Cartographie (Sciences Po) and Professor Carlos Milani, teacher and research at IESP-UERJ.


The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) represent a new way to transmit knowledge to a greater student audience outside the doors of universities. Each institution that commits to the production of a MOOC aims to stimulate curiosity and interest, promoting the quality of its teachings and increasing its visibility. However, a MOOC is usually restricted to one university -- or even one teacher/researcher.

The MOOC « Espace Mondial: Another Vision of Global Studies » is an innovative and ambitious experience. Indeed, through the very nature of course’s core subject - revisiting global studies – this course intends to collect analysis, to compare different approaches to globalization, and to stimulate debate on asymmetries in international politics.

For this reason, this course is being co-constructed with some of Sciences Po’s partner universities: the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos/ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, the Université Saint Joseph in Beyrouth, Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. Each is engaged in producing academic content, because visions of globalization are diverse and the unique character of this course is based on the promotion of the pluralism of geographical, historical, political and sociological approaches.

Concretely, the success of such a course supposes that each university will produce videos to account for the richness and diversity of points of view. Three debates will be recorded with the participation of each partner and their videos will be included in the MOOC.

This course would not completely meet its goal if it did not represent the linguistic diversity of our world. Hence, the MOOC will be available with sub-titles in English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin.

Finally, this MOOC will provide access to over 250 documents to illustrate the course, a great majority of which will be produced by the teachers and researchers from among the partner universities. In that context, some of them will need a specific training and technological transfer so that each will have the necessary skills to produce the academic content.

This particular aspect of the project will be illustrated by the work thus far carried out by Sciences Po and IESP/UERJ: training in mapping (this has already enabled the production of the “Atlas da politica exterior brasileira : http://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana/buscar_libro_detalle.php%3Fcampo=titulo&texto=atlas&id_libro=927) and the construction of a learning platform for graphic processing and data mapping.

In short, this parallel session aims to present a creative cooperation experiment of an original, and probably unique, way to produce academic content and stimulate a debate among participants on internationalization challenges, in terms of both content and form.

Author(s):

Marie-Françoise Durand    
Sciences Po
France

Carlos Milani    
Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos/ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ)
Brazil

Catarina Laranjeira    
Sciences Po
France