Vous trouvez ci-joint la présentation de l'AUF faite lors de la conférence internationale sur les MOOC organisée à Lausane du 10 au 12 février 2014 avec la présence des représentants de 30 pays.

1. From e-Learning to MOOCs : The Challenges for
Certification
Case of Developing Countries
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

2. 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?

3. 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

4. AUF Digital Campuses per Regions
Maghreb
5
Middle
East
4
Indian
Ocean
3
Eastern
and Central
Europe
5
West Africa
9
Central
Africa
10
South-East
Asia
6

5. Campus Numeriques Francophones MD
AUF Francophone Digital Campuses

6. What can be transferred to MOOCs?
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)

7. 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)…

8. Need for contact with the off-line world!
As recognized by Coursera, which is opening
« Global Learning Hubs » in many Englishspeaking developing countries,
part of the on-line teaching process has to be
put off-line when it comes to certification and
quality.

9. Coursera and US Department of State launch
Global Learning Hubs
to bring online learning to the offline world

10. Campus Numeriques Francophones MD
AUF Francophone Digital Campuses

13. 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