Pierre-Jean Loiret, Didier Oillo (AUF, Paris)

Richard Canal, Mejdi Ayari (IFIC, Tunis)

Annick Suzor-Weiner (AUF & Université Paris-Sud)

AUF: 780 Members Universities in 98 countries, 6 Institutes

Headquarter: Montréal – Rectorat: Paris

10 Regional Offices

From e-Learning to MOOCs : The Challenges for

Certification

Case of Developing Countries

Which « value » for a MOOC?

Three types of motivations for a MOOC “learner”:

1. Curiosity, Knowledge, Competency…

Attestation (from the MOOC provider)

2. Asset to be hired or promoted Badges? Certification?

3. Building block of an academic curriculum Credits

The value of a MOOC, especially for Employment, rests on insuring QUALITY:

- Quality of the content: Accreditation? University Label?

- Quality of the examination: Who? Where? Infrastructures? Supervision?

AUF: 22 years of e-learning experience,

in constant evolution

• 1991 1st Francophone Digital Campus, Dakar (25m2, 5 PC)

• 2004 1st Call for launching on-line Degrees, with training

and support for Universities in developing countries

• 80 e-learning Bachelors or Masters, 35 delivered by

universities in developing countries

• 8000 degrees awarded in 10 years, 4000 e-scholarships

• 42 Francophone Digital Campuses : free access, tutors,

organization and supervision of examinations

AUF Digital Campuses per Regions

West Africa 9

Central Africa

10

South-East Asia

6

Eastern

and Central Europe

5

Middle East

4 Maghreb

5

Indian Ocean

3

Campus Numeriques Francophones MD

AUF Francophone Digital Campuses

New challenges, some specific to developing countries:

• Massive numbers of candidates: space? supervision?

• No initial registration, late information on effective numbers and identities.

• Fees? Money transfer?

• Short exams (1 module) but frequent

• On line? (security, power, connection…)

• On paper? (digitalization of written tests)

What can be transferred to MOOCs?

AUF Experiments

on Certifications « au Sud »

• Go slowly… Experiments for a few MOOCS, not (yet) overcrowded, in a few countries.

• December 2013: MOOC on Project management (Centrale Lille) - Certification in Dakar & Ouagadougou

• May 2014: MOOC on Technology of Data Networks (Telecom) registration for certification in progress (early birds!)

• Working groups with Francophone MOOCs providers: FUN (France Université Numérique), French Ministry of Higher Education and Research EPFL, RESCIF (Engineering Schools), OCEAN (FLOTs)…

Need for contact with the off-line world!

As recognized by Coursera, which is opening « Global Learning Hubs » in many English-speaking developing countries,

part of the on-line teaching process has to be put off-line when it comes to certification and quality.

Coursera and US Department of State launch Global Learning Hubs

to bring online learning to the offline world

Campus Numeriques Francophones MD

AUF Francophone Digital Campuses

Research and Innovation for e-Learning for and with francophone universities

AUF - TUNIS:

Blended learning, Hybrid training (on- and off-line)

Training of Trainers, e-learning Research

Call for e-learning, MOOCs, Research Masters (March 11) :

http://www.ific.auf.org/article173.html