The first MOOC I followed is called “Introduction to Personal Branding” by Coursera and University of Virginia. Despite hearing about personal branding many times, I never understood what this concept meant. The course is an interesting introduction to an aspect we should all take care of, and explains what personal branding mean: promoting yourself, building a brand and building a reputation, just to name the most important. During the course I was asked to create my brand mission statement, and got introduced to the concept of reputation management. This last was the chapter of the course I found most interesting.
My second MOOC, instead, was entitled “Critical Raw Materials: Managing Resources for a Sustainable Future” by EdX and TU Delft. I decided to take this course, which was not among those proposed, because the topic of critical raw materials was definitely my favorite over the master, and I wanted to deepen into it. Analyzing the criticality of a material is a fundamental step to adopt especially when it comes to key technologies for energetic transition. This is because solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and so on, currently have a vulnerable supply chain due to different issues (geopolitical, economical, social, ecc.). The course gave me a complete understanding of the topic, and taught me that when it comes to criticality study, a multidisciplinary approach has to be adopted.
Following these two courses gave the opportunity to approach a new type of resource I never used before. Since the quality of the teaching and the resources proposed was very high, I will definitely include the Massive Online Open Courses, and in particular the platforms which provide them, in my PLE, as expressed in the following picture.
Thanks for your attention!
Luigi
