Massive Open Online Course: Resilience, Sustainability & Digitalisation in Critical Infrastructure

This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a free, open, online course designed to offer a taste of higher education to learners from across the world. The University of Birmingham is delivering new MOOCs in partnership with FutureLearn. Delivered by world-class academics from the University of Birmingham and other partners of the HORIZON Recharged project (GA no. 101086413), the course enable learners worldwide to sample high-quality academic content via an interactive web-based platform from leading global universities, increasing access to higher education for a whole new cohort of learners.

The course is developed by senior academic staff and their content is reviewed regularly, taking into account student feedback.

This MOOC brings together world experts, including general audiences, aiming to provide training with life-long updates and professional development opportunities for general and specialised audiences. The MOOC contains all the necessary components of a university taught module, e.g. prerequisites, content and aims, learning outcomes, attributes for sustainable professional development (cognitive, analytical, transferable skills, professional and practical skills), expected hours of study, assessment patterns, units of assessment and reading list, warm-up sessions, with relevant podcasts and videos, lecture notes and recorded lectures, some of which will be tailored for general audiences.

These lecture notes are accompanying the seven lectures of the MOOC. Following is the MOOC description, which contains the outcomes, the aims per week and the learning activities. The latter include a combination of material acquisitions and discussions, investigations and production, practical examples and analysis of case studies, and a set of collaboration and discussion forum.