E-Learning, MOOC e Lingue Straniere: Studi, Ricerche e Sperimentazioni

[English]:This book is the result of the University of Naples “L’Orientale”’s cooperationwith MOVE-ME – MOocs for uniVErsity students on the Move in Europe(movemeproject.eu), an Erasmus Plus project whose partners are theUniversità per Stranieri di Siena (Italy), the National University of Ireland(NUI Galway) , the Open University (United Kingdom), the FENICE - FEderazioneNazionale Insegnanti – Centro di iniziativa per l’Europa (Italy), the“Diophantos” Computer Technology Institute & Press (Greece), and the Institutulde Ştiinţe ale Educaţiei (Romania).The first international congress of this project was held on 20-21 October2016 at the Open University Milton Keynes campus, and its title wasMOOCs, Informal Language Learning and Mobility. Subsequently prof. Giampierode Cristofaro from the FENICE suggested that “L’Orientale” shouldhost the project’s second international conference. This institution appreciatedthe chance of cooperating with such a group of important European universitiesand research centres on distance learning and MOOCs and, particularly,on their scope and prospects in the field of teaching foreign languages.Indeed, the latter is a field in which this institution has developed a veryhigh profile over the last two hundred years, while in relation to the former, “L’Orientale” has launched a rich and diversified package of experimentalcourses during the last few years. It was thus been to organise together thesecond international congress of the MOVEME project on 13-14 October2017. The event was a considerable success, with more than 100 registeredparticipants who came from several European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria,Cyprus, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, the United Kingdom, Kosovo, Malta,Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain, and Switzerland)as well as from outside Europe (Algeria, Australia, China, Thailandand Turkey). There were more than 46 presentations, with contributions bykeynote speakers during three plenary sessions and b