Hi! I´m going to talk to you about an interesting and innovative educational proposal.
I am Mercedes, and I´m co-directing these massive open online courses.
Nuclear Safety Culture, although with the “nuclear” term in it, it has mainly to
do with culture, and with safety, so it applies as well to many other fields.
And this is an excellent excuse to gather a collaborative learning environment, putting
together participants from the nuclear field with, for example, students from STEM studies
and professionals from other high risk industries.
We will talk, then, about what is needed from organizations and workers in order to favor
safety.
This initiative is under the umbrella of the Horizon 2020 European project “ANNETTE”,
and has required an important effort to bring together the engineering company Tecnatom
and the Spanish National University of Distance Teaching, UNED.
On one side, Tecnatom, as international leaders in training in nuclear safety culture, have
gathered all their learning materials and expertise.
On the other side stands UNED University, with a team of experts in innovation in distance
education in general, and in the nuclear sector, in particular.
UNED team has trained Tecnatom on how to adapt and prepare the learning contents for a MOOC,
and managed all the production process.
A very close collaboration has been needed, and it has been a very enriching experience
for both organizations.
We have 3 independent nanoMOOCs (called NOOCs).
The participant may start with the first NOOC on safety culture, then follow with the core
NOOC on Nuclear Safety Culture, and finally end with a NOOC on leadership.
Also, an extended glossary of nuclear terms is available.
Then, this time the target is not only the nuclear sector, and this will be an interesting
opportunity to conduct a scientific research on education.
For this purpose, we will take advantage of the numerous data that learning analytics
of this type of courses provide.