About MODE IT

MODE IT was the short name of the Erasmus+ project „Curricular modernization by implementing MOOCs model”. Five higher education institutions from Germany, Lithuania, Turkey, Portugal, and Romania built a Strategic Partnership with the aim to introduce innovative MOOC-based approaches to the design and delivery of higher education courses. In other words, open pedagogies were integrated into formal education towards making it more flexible and attractive for students.

This innovative MODE IT approach contributed to:

• Raising awareness of open learning formats among students for their future career,
• Increasing students’ ability for self-organized and self-regulated learning.

The main innovation drivers of MODE IT approach were teaching staff at HEIs. Therefore,

MODE IT specific objectives were:

• To create awareness of professional (self)-development amongst teaching staff;
• To enhance skills of teaching staff in the design and delivery of MOOCs and MOOC-based curricula;
• To create and deliver MOOC-based subjects within selected higher education curricula.

MODE IT outputs:

• Online self-assessment tool for HEI educators,
• Training program for HEI teachers on MOOC (re)design and delivery,
• MOOC-based higher education curricula.

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