The Challenge of teaching mobile journalism through MOOCs : a case study
Cervi, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Periodisme i de Ciències de la Comunicació)
Pérez Tornero, José Manuel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Tejedor, Santiago (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Periodisme i de Ciències de la Comunicació)

Date:	2020
Abstract:	Smartphones have become a key social tool: They have changed the way people consume, receive and produce information, providing potentially anyone with the opportunity to create and share content through a variety of platforms. The use of smartphones for gathering, producing, editing and disseminating news gave birth to a new journalistic practice, mobile journalism. Incorporating mobile journalism is, thus, the current challenge for journalism educators. Our article aims at discovering whether new models of education, such as massive online courses, can help mobile journalism training. The research focuses on the first pilot project of a massive open online courses (MOOC) on mobile journalism, the Y-NEX MOOC. By assessing structure, functioning and participants' opinion, the objective is to discover if MOOCs prove to be useful tools in mobile journalism training. Results show that this model of distance open learning can be helpful for mobile journalism training, providing some recommendations for improvement.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; Versió publicada
Subject:	MOOC ; Mobile journalism ; MoJo ; Education ; Training ; Information and communication technologies
Published in:	Sustainability, Vol. 12 Núm. 13 (2020) , p. 5307, ISSN 2071-1050

DOI: 10.3390/su12135307

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