Hello and welcome to the MOOC:
"Introducing safety culture and its
applications to the nuclear field".
We want to carry out this course,
in order to,
bring the concept of safety culture,
to everyone who is curious about it.
It is an absolutely crucial issue,
not only in industry areas
where for years,
it has been used and developed,
especially in the aeronautical,
and nuclear sectors,
but it can be applied also,
in our day to day.
Easily in any context;
We can have our "figurative" boat.
That you can see here.
With the best,
and most advance technology.
We can have a great leader,
we can have also, of course,
a great team, and procedures, rules,
or any kind of map that could guide us,
practically with our eyes closed.
But there are times,
when even having all these,
unknown situations may appear.
Leading to unexpected results,
in our case exemplified by our boat.
It could be a crash with an iceberg.
The iceberg of culture,
and a specifically here
the iceberg of safety culture.
So little by little we will see
what we mean.
But first.
what kind of course is this?
We are going to do,
a very brief introduction.
This course is a MOOC.
That means massive open course.
We want to emphasize,
the characters of massive and open.
Where as you may already know,
the participants have to take,
an active role in the learning process,
and collaborative learning,
is specially encouraged.
As you may know,
MOOCs are just another signal,
of the social role transformation,
we are living nowadays.
In the training field,
we are changing the role of
transmitters of knowledge in favour,
of new roles as counselors,
facilitators, or companions
in the process of learning.
Now you have the key role,
in your training,
since it's your own experience.
Your collaboration and sharing of
knowledge will make the difference.
We like to think that MOOCs,
are like the:
"Choose your own adventure books"
but with a little help, from our side.
So, what is the learning pathway we offer you?
We will have a previous test,
to find how much you know,
about each of the fields.
Also you will have an expert corner.
Where, a professional will explain us,
their vision and give us some tips.
All the specific contents about,
the different topics will be available,
in different formats with,
extra information,
if you want to know more about them,
you will have videos, articles,
online data.
Along the course you can complete also,
self-evaluation tests,
in order to consolidate the concepts,
and at the end
you can complete a final test,
to know how much you have learned,
and grown in the safety culture field.
As you can see here,
in the description of the course,
the MOOC requires about 30 hours,
to achieve an estimated one an ETCS,
and is distributed in four shorter and
independent nanoMoocs,
related to safety culture,
to obtain the whole vision of the field.
The first one will be:
"What is the safety culture",
and will take more or less ten hours,
the next one will be related to,
specifically, nuclear safety culture,
and will be:
"Understanding the nuclear safety culture",
will take also another 10 hours.
The third one,
is related with the "Leadership for safety",
and will take five hours, approximately.
And finally, but not least, we do have:
"Nuclear basis";
in order to refresh your knowledge.
So, all these will be the four NanoMOOCs.
You can get certificated of each of the four nano-MOOCs,
or you can get an equivalent of one ECTS,
if you go through the whole program.
So we hope that following all the NanoMOOCS,
you will enjoy this collaborative learning,
and satisfy you curiosity.
So here we will see a summary of the whole program,
with the expected work load,
for each of the nano MOOCs.
So, the first one, remembering,
would be: "What is the safety culture",
followed by:
"Understanding the nuclear safety culture",
"Developing leadership for safety"
and finally "Refreshing nuclear basics".
So, thank you.
And we hope,
you will learn of this new kind of training.
So, this MOOC will aim you to be,
in a new way of transmitting,
and sharing the knowledge,
and changing learning by oneself,
for learning with others.
Thank you again,
and we encourage your participation in our MOOC,
or any of the NOOCs of your interest.