On June 7th, 2024 the MOOC "Hispanic-Filipino Literature" of the Erasmus DIGIPHILIT project at the Philippine Center in Madrid, in an event in which his Excellency the Ambassador of the Philippines to Spain Philippe J. Lhuillier, Vice Chancellor of Transformation and Digital Education and Artificial Intelligence César Cáceres Taladriz, Academic Director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Digital Education (CIED) of the URJC, Jaime Urquiza Fuentes and MOOC coordinator, Professor Beatriz Álvarez Tardío (General Linguistics area), coordinator also from Degree in Translation and Interpretation of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
The MOOC "Hispano-Filipino Literature", which is now open, is located Available in Spanish, English and Filipino. In this online course Which offers a artistic and literary experience for which no preparation needed and that allows you to enjoy a journey through several centuries (16th to 21st centuries) of travel between the Philippines and Spain, to discover their literary relationships.
As its organizers comment, the course allows you to navigate on board texts, art and music to to discover a literature that until now has remained in a state of relative abandonment, absent from academic programs. In this course you get access to interviews, explanations and the texts available in an anthology and what are they analyzed through tools of the Digital Humanities.
Likewise, the course involves result of unique research carried out by its professors, which comes from several European and Philippine universities. For the academic community it is special interest, Both faculty as if to master's and doctoral students in the field of Hispanic and Filipino studies, since it provides resources for Future investigations in a new camp.