About MOOCs
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are free online learning tools open to everyone.
CISIA has designed and implemented MOOCs as a valuable self-learning resource for students and anyone with an interest or passion for learning.
The content of the courses, covering different disciplines, is created by professors from the consortium universities. CISIA collaborates with Federica Web Learning in the design, development, and delivery of the MOOCs.
Who are MOOCs intended for?
The MOOCs are online courses held in Italian for:
- students who need to take or have already taken a CISIA test (TOLC or OTHER TESTS)
- individuals seeking guidance in choosing a study path or a degree course
- people who want to learn or enhance skills that could be useful for university studies
- teachers interested in using new tools
- anyone with an interest or curiosity.
Which MOOCs can you take?
The Basic Mathematics MOOC consists of 11 lessons:
- basic concepts
- functions
- combinatorics and probability
- real numbers and powers
- polynomials
- equations
- inequalities
- geometry
- exponentials and logarithms
- trigonometry
- trigonometric equations and inequalities.
You can test your knowledge with self-assessment quizzes at the end of each lesson.
The Textual Skills MOOC is divided into two parts.
Basic level
lessons 1 to 5 (Part 1):
- textuality
- cohesion and coherence
- parts of the text
- lexicon
- the sentence.
Advanced level
lessons 1 to 10 (Part 1 + Part 2):
- words and sentences
- syntactic structures
- special constructions
- sentence structure
- subordinate clauses (argumentative and circumstantial).
To test your learning of the lessons you can test yourself with 10 introductory quizzes, 10 summative quizzes and 400 practice items.
The Basic Physical Sciences MOOC is structured into two parts:
Basic Level:
- physical quantities, measurement, interdisciplinary concepts
- kinematics
- basic dynamics
- advanced dynamics.
Advanced Level:
- hydrostatics
- thermodynamics
- electricity and magnetism
- optics
- atomic physics.
You can check your understanding through 61 quizzes that use a mentor approach to guide your learning.
The Basic Chemical Sciences MOOC consists of 21 online lessons. The reference topics are:
- macroscopic properties of matter: the particle model
- microscopic properties of matter and composition of substances
- chemical reactions
- compounds, properties and nomenclature of compounds, solutions
- acids, bases, and their reactions
- oxidations and reductions
- introduction to organic chemistry.
Questo MOOC è disponibile grazie alla collaborazione e alla gentile concessione dell’Università di Padova e del suo Dipartimento di Biologia. In questa nuova versione online, rivista in collaborazione con Federica Web Learning, potrai trovare i seguenti contenuti:
- molecole biologiche
- cellule procariotiche ed eucariotiche
- differenze tra cellula eucariote animale e cellula eucariote vegetale
- genetica mendeliana
- cromosomi, DNA e geni
- introduzione alla trascrizione e alla traduzione
- divisione cellulare
- mitosi e meiosi
- ciclo cellulare nei procarioti e negli eucarioti
- virus
- principi di evoluzione
- fiori e frutti.
Il MOOC di Biologia di base si articola in 9 lezioni:
- le proteine
- osmosi cellulare
- fondamenti di genetica: trasmissione dei caratteri monogenici
- come si dividono le cellule eucariotiche
- il sistema nervoso dell’uomo
- elementi di biologia delle piante
- elementi di bioenergetica
- energia e materia negli ecosistemi
- le applicazioni del sapere nelle scienze della vita.