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This paper presents the experience of the MOOC “Embracing Diversity”, developed for the IN2IT Project and hosted on Polimi Open Knowledge, the MOOC programme of Politecnico di Milano (https://www.pok.polimi.it/). A follow up of the MOOC, represented by an ongoing special edition of the course, focused specifically on gender and STEM, is also shortly presented.
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the main characteristics of the MOOC, with a special focus on the intended learning outcomes, the vision of the topic, the methodology used to develop it;
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the data of the pilot edition of the course on the basis of the available information, represented mainly by the results of the initial and final survey;
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the ongoing special edition of the MOOC focused on gender and STEM.
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Sancassani, S., Baudo, V., Trentinaglia, N. (2019). Embracing Diversity: A Raising Awareness MOOC Experience. In: Calise, M., Delgado Kloos, C., Reich, J., Ruiperez-Valiente, J., Wirsing, M. (eds) Digital Education: At the MOOC Crossroads Where the Interests of Academia and Business Converge. EMOOCs 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19875-6_20
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