MOOCs and the Participatory Challenge From Revolution to Reality

Divina Frau-Meigs is professor of media and ICT sociology at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France. She holds degrees from the Sorbonne University, Stanford University and the Annenberg School for Communications (University of Pennsylvania). She holds the UNESCO chair “Savoir-devenir in sustainable digital development: mastering information cultures” (2013--). She was granted the “Global MIL Award” by UNESCO and Alliance of Civilisations for her MOOC DIY MIL (2016). She is an expert with UNESCO (on MIL, social media, youth and radicalisation), with Council of Europe (on MIL and Digital Citizenship Education), and with the European Union (on MIL for all and online disinformation). 

Dr. Frau-Meigs directed CLEMI (the French Center for Media and Information Literacy) during 2013-2015 and prepared the French school response after the “Je suis Charlie” terrorist attacks. She is the co-chair of the European Chapter of GAPMIL, the Global Alliance for Partnerships in Media and Information Literacy. She represents civil society interests (academia and research) in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and in other global arenas (ICANN, WSIS...).  She is the co-founder and president of Savoir*Devenir, an NGO dedicated to 21 ^st century media literacies and digital citizenship.

Sara Osuna-Acedo is a Professor of Communication and Education and Deputy Vice Director for  Continuous Education at the National University for Distance Education of Spain (UNED). She is  a University expert on MOOCs, Social Media, Free Software, Media Analysis and Integrated Technologies and Knowledge Societies. Her research lines are MOOC, media convergence, digital scenarios, disability, digital learning and social networks. She has coordinated the European project ECO "Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Mobile, Massive and Ubiquitous Learning" where 23 partners from nine different countries participated.

Noteworthy are the works published in journals and editorials with some scientific impact on the results of the ECO Project.

CARMEN MARTA-LAZO is a  Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She is Director of Unizar Radio station and Director Entremedios Digital Platform. She is Main Researcher in Digital Communication and Information Research Group (GICID), that forms part Government of Aragon (S29_20R). She is Co-editor in chief of Mediterranean Journal of Communication. She was part of the project “E-learning, communication and Open Data: Mobile, massive and ubiquitous learning”, as coordinator in the partner of the University of Zaragoza. She has conducted numerous scientific forums related to her research lines, based on Media Education, Digital Competence and screen consumptions and interactions.