The Challenge of Teaching Mobile Journalism through MOOCs: A Case Study

Laura Cervi, José Manuel Pérez Tornero and Santiago Tejedor
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Laura Cervi: Department of Journalism and Communications Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
José Manuel Pérez Tornero: Department of Journalism and Communications Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Santiago Tejedor: Department of Journalism and Communications Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 13, 1-15

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.

Keywords: MOOC; mobile journalism; MoJo; education; training; information and communication technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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