Design and implementation of e-learning programs in folklore, ethnography and history: Following the Logic of the Mass Open Internet Courses (MOOC)
- Author Alexandros Kapaniaris
- Co-Author Manolis Varvounis
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- Country : Greece
- Subject : Education
Keywords : Folk Culture, Ethnography, History, Educational Programs, E-Learning, MOOC
Abstract
The subject of this essay is the design and the implementation of e-learning programs in folk culture and local history. In particular, the specific design of the programs was conducted under the scientific supervision of the Folklore Laboratory and Social Anthropology of the Department of History and Ethnology of Democritus University of Thrace with the collaboration of the Department of Preschool Sciences Education and Educational Planning of the University of the Aegean. Τhis attempt was supported by the Academy of Folk Culture & Local History of the Cultural Organization “Magniton Kivotos’’, in aid of the rescue of the cultural inventory of the Holy Metropolis of Demetrias and Almiros. Τhe main features of this approach to the creation of e-learning programs in the folk culture, ethnography and history, were the opportunity to attend the courses for free as well as the absence of any restrictions and special conditions for the learner’s involvement. Τhe methods followed in these e-learning programs which were developed on a case-by-case basis were: a) asynchronous distance learning, b) synchronous distance learning, c) blended model which combines asynchronous and synchronous learning. Thus, the logic of Massive Open Online Courses was gradually adapted in the thematic units of folklore, ethnography and history.
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