EduOpen: the MOOCs of the University of Padua
The MOOC "GIScience for Climate Justice" of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence on Climate Justice (Jean Monnet Erasmus+ project 2020-2023) integrates the concepts of climate change and climate and environmental justice with open-source and freeware Geo-Information and Communication Technologies (Geo-ITC), developing practical lessons with a learning-by-doing approach.
FarmBox's MOOC is aimed at improving the development of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) skills for students and farmers for the green transition to a nature-positive, climate-resilient, carbon-neutral.
The course offers the opportunity to address issues related to the measure to combat poverty and income supplementation, in particular for the part relating to the Social Inclusion Patti implemented by social services.
The course is mainly aimed at professionals working in social services aimed at citizens who carry out the function of accompanying people and families benefiting from measures to combat poverty and income support. It is desirable that the course be followed by several professionals from the same field who therefore share the operational practices, so as to encourage processes of reflection and inter-professional exchange.
There are no other methods of certification by EduOpen other than the certificate of participation (for other aspects, please refer to the course contact persons).
"A Matter of Cells" is a course aimed at all primary and secondary school teachers.
The course explores cell structure, DNA characteristics, the ability of cells to collaborate and specialize; All the contents are presented maintaining a simple and understandable language, but always accurate. The goal is to give a dynamic and up-to-date vision with respect to current scientific knowledge, easily usable by those who have no previous knowledge, but also useful for those who already have an organic preparation.
In our time, marked by the global dimension of information and rapid and constant social changes, reading acquires new meanings and the pandemic has only highlighted this.
Reading is one of the key tools not only to acquire information and knowledge, enhance the cognitive skills and cultural skills of the individual, but also to encourage a general evolution towards shared knowledge. Reading requires targeted stimulation and support.
In our project, the stimulus is given by the works of six great authors of the twentieth century, awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize. Our graduates, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, André Gide, Boris Leonidovič Pasternak, Gabriel García Márquez and John Maxwell Coetzee have provided us with a wonderful excuse to talk about literature over the span of almost a century and to invite you to read their masterpieces.
Literature and digital technology have been used to create a concrete ground for peer sharing for the students of yesterday, today and tomorrow and pursue sustainable social and cultural development together.
Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in the world and the largest collective work on the web. Free and free, it is consulted every day by millions of people and is open to everyone's contribution. The course aims to offer all the basic elements to use Wikipedia actively and as protagonists, with a guided path to learn how to correctly contribute, improve and propose new content in the free encyclopedia.
Participants will learn to expand existing articles and write new ones, to add images, to improve the reliability of Wikipedia with the inclusion of reliable sources. Learning to write on Wikipedia helps to develop numerous skills, inherent in digital citizenship practices, useful at school, university and in the workplace: understanding a text, processing it, summarizing it and revising it; translating content from one language to another; selecting and comparing the most appropriate sources, ensuring the verifiability of the contents, exercising critical thinking.
The course is aimed at school and university students and anyone who wants to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in the world and the largest collective work on the web. Free of charge, it is consulted every day by millions of people and is open to everyone's contribution.
The course aims to offer all the basic elements to know the encyclopedia and create educational activities at school and university: learning how to contribute correctly to the free encyclopedia and how to design activities in which Wikipedia becomes a real learning environment.
Learning to write on Wikipedia is important to develop numerous skills, useful in the digital world, at school, at university and in the workplace: understanding a text, processing it, summarizing it and revising it; translating content from one language to another; select and compare the most appropriate sources, ensuring the verifiability of the contents.
The mechanisms of operation of the most consulted encyclopedia in the world will be experimented from the inside, in view of the organization of classroom and online activities in one's school or university institution.
The course is aimed at teachers of schools and universities.
The Botanica Zero pathway is dedicated to high school students, university students, teachers and anyone who is eager to learn about vascular plants in their particularity for a greater awareness of their importance and incredible variety. To follow the course, it is sufficient to have basic knowledge of biology acquired in high school and an aptitude for observation.
Pathway Structure
The pathway consists of two courses and a final Capstone. It is advisable to first follow the basic course "Plant organs" and then the second "How to recognize plants". It is possible to attend only one of the courses, however it is recommended to attend both as the second contains many references to the first.
In the Capstone it is possible to take an additional quiz of 10 questions to receive the certificate of participation in the entire pathway.
About the Pathway in Zero Botany
Botany Zero - The Organs of Plants
Botany Zero - How to recognize plants
The course is aimed at the course unit of Scientific Computing through numerical and applicative examples, and aims to present the main high-level and open source libraries. Python is nowadays the most popular programming language for integrating these libraries. The course assumes a basic knowledge of the Python language and focuses on how to do scientific computing in Python at an intermediate/advanced level.
The course is aimed at students, graduates, researchers of any discipline, interested in scientific computing at an intermediate/advanced level, now typical of all sectors of applied sciences and engineering.
Pathway Structure
The pathway involves taking the Basic course first and then the Advanced course. The Advanced course can be taken individually, however it is recommended to attend both as the second contains many references to the first.
The MOOC "Right to Beauty" aims to train and update a wide audience on the multidisciplinary theme of cultural heritage law, i.e. to spread a culture of legality in the historical, artistic and archaeological fields.
The online course is aimed at jurists, lawyers, cultural heritage professionals (archaeologists, art historians, restorers, museologists, etc.), collectors and enthusiasts, art dealers and antique dealers, with the aim of 1) analyzing the salient points of the current legislation on cultural heritage, 2) drawing attention to lawful and illicit behavior regarding the purchase or sale, possession, the use and conservation of objects, 3) examine the main crimes against cultural heritage, 4) verify the methods of studying, preventing and combating the phenomena of counterfeiting, clandestine excavations and illicit trafficking of cultural property.
Finally, the MOOC intends to propose an innovative way of resolving disputes on these delicate issues that endanger the very idea of Culture.
Through thematic modules created by various specially selected professionals, the course aims to reach, in a free and accessible way, the widest audience, offering opportunities for updating, course track development and in-depth study of topics often reserved only for professionals but characterized by repercussions on the daily life of the entire national community.
The MOOC "GIScience for Climate Justice" of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence on Climate Justice (Jean Monnet Erasmus+ project 2020-2023) integrates the concepts of climate change and climate and environmental justice with open-source and freeware Geo-Information and Communication Technologies (Geo-ITC), developing practical lessons with a learning-by-doing approach.
FarmBox's MOOC is aimed at improving the development of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) skills for students and farmers for the green transition to a nature-positive, climate-resilient, carbon-neutral.
To read a literary text and grasp all its richness, it is necessary to know four key words of the discipline: 'literary genre', 'metrics', 'narration', 'lexicon'.
A module is dedicated to each of these words, which, alternating a theoretical treatment with a historical one, will allow you to acquire not only the basic notions of Italian studies, but to develop analytical skills useful in everyday life and in university education.
The course deals with state models with an input and an output, highlighting their importance and main properties. It also shows how to build such models from the equations of physics. The topics covered in the course are: definitions of state models, linear systems, construction of a state model, choice of state variables, equilibrium and linearization points, feedback linearization. Analysis of linear systems: evolution of the state and output of a linear system, superposition theorem of effects, free evolution and forced evolution of state and output, transfer function and impulse response. Stability: stability in linear systems, stability conditions for the equilibrium points of nonlinear systems, BIBO stability. Examples: compartmental models, prey-predator model (Lotka-Volterra), electric motor model.
The course is mainly aimed at students, professionals in the justice sector and technical consultants of the Corti and is proposed as a practical methodological learning tool for the composition of communicatively effective and persuasive legal texts.
The course represents a first introduction to Financial Mathematics.
Many economic decisions such as taking out a mortgage loan or applying for financing for the purchase of a new car can be made with greater awareness if we know the basic rules that link two fundamental quantities together: time and money
In addition to being useful for making financial decisions, this course aims to be a point of connection between high school and the university world, showing an applicative aspect of Mathematics that is often neglected.
The course has been designed as one of the results of the Erasmus+ IMEDiL Project (KA220-HED-0DBC752A).
The course offers the opportunity to address issues related to the measure to combat poverty and income supplementation, in particular for the part relating to the Social Inclusion Patti implemented by social services.
The course is mainly aimed at professionals working in social services aimed at citizens who carry out the function of accompanying people and families benefiting from measures to combat poverty and income support. It is desirable that the course be followed by several professionals from the same field who therefore share the operational practices, so as to encourage processes of reflection and inter-professional exchange.
There are no other methods of certification by EduOpen other than the certificate of participation (for other aspects, please refer to the course contact persons).
The MOOC "Probability and Statistics", of the departments of Mathematics and Statistical sciences, aims to provide the key mathematical tools for the organization and reprocessing of statistical data and for the formulation and study of probabilistic models capable of providing a theoretical basis for the data in hand.
The course is designed for students who are entering the university world and dealing with probability and statistics for the first time. It is also aimed at secondary school teachers who intend to propose specific activities to those who study, to curious and passionate people who have sufficient knowledge of mathematical calculation.
To follow the course, the basics of mathematical calculus are required, including the notion of limit and integral.
"A Matter of Cells" is a course aimed at all primary and secondary school teachers.
The course explores cell structure, DNA characteristics, the ability of cells to collaborate and specialize; All the contents are presented maintaining a simple and understandable language, but always accurate. The goal is to give a dynamic and up-to-date vision with respect to current scientific knowledge, easily usable by those who have no previous knowledge, but also useful for those who already have an organic preparation.
A good study method is important to successfully face the university experience. This course describes the phases of study, the most effective strategies, emotions and motivational aspects that most influence academic performance. Part of the content will focus on individual differences, in particular on those personal characteristics that can affect study and performance (e.g. specific learning disorders).
The course is aimed at all students who are about to start university and want to improve their study method.
The Self-In project aims to increase the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities through the launch of self-management programs. In particular, it aims to increase the levels of self-determination and independence of people with intellectual disabilities, through the sharing of materials and tools.
The training course proposes a series of reflection activities to promote the identification of the main elements related to social inclusion and independence. In addition, awareness of beliefs that can favor or limit the self-management and quality of life of people with disabilities is promoted. Finally, some strategies for implementing self-management programs are presented through practical examples and exercises.
Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach, the course proposes the analysis of the European integration process from a historical, legal and political perspective, offering different visual angles for a 360-degree understanding of the history, legal and political aspects of the European Union, from the fifties to current issues.
The online course "Wikimedia community for cultural institutions" offers an overview of Wikimedia's open digital platforms, including the most consulted ones in the world such as Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that is among the top 5 most used websites in Italy.
The course offers people working in museums, archives and libraries in Italy (MAB in Italian, in English GLAM - gallery, library, archive, museum) the essential elements to effectively use Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, OpenStreetMap, avoiding the typical mistakes that cultural institutions often make at their first approach. The course aims to illustrate how each institution can learn to use them, enhancing their cultural content in a concrete way, through the sharing in Open Access of images and multimedia files, texts and databases, to reach a constantly increasing international audience, contributing to the growth of knowledge freely available to all, each in their own language.
Digital Learning & Multimedia Office
via del Padovanino, 9 - 35123 Padua
ufficio.dlm@unipd.it
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