MOOC - RePast
Massive open online course ‘Dark Tourism: Revisiting the past & Anticipating the Future’
This massive open online course (MOOC) is a free online course available for anyone to enroll at any time by self-enrollment.
‘Dark Tourism: Revisiting the past & Anticipating the Future’
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6 Units
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1 Introduction
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1 Welcome message
Learn What's Important on Dark Tourism and Troubled Past
The course offers to professionals and students a flexible way to learn new skills and obtain a quality educational experience in a setting similar to an online class. The online course is adapted to suit the needs of professionals and students in the fields of tourism and tourism studies.
Learn by Example
By examples and videos this online course aims to demystify dark tourism, which focuses on
places with a particular troubled period in their past, and to bridge theory and practice on dark
tourism and troubled past.
Meet the instructor
Dr. Maria Hadjielia Drotarova, PhD
My research interests focus on topics at the nexus of
tourism management and education, while I am also researching phenomena linked
to new technologies in tourism such as P2P digital platforms. There is much to
gain from combining tourism and education, especially in specialized forms of
tourism such as dark tourism and thanatourism, which can offer possibilities
for re-education on the importance of places of death and disaster. The field
of education is a broad field, which can provide new theories and perspectives
to the study of tourism and its specialized forms.
My contributions to literature include, amongst other, theoretical understandings on educational experience and its social dimensions, the conceptualization of the nexus between thanatourism and emotions, and dynamics and processes associated with the functioning of short-term rental (STR) platforms in tourism (e.g. types of hosts, professionalisation and quality standards, etc.).
This course will be delivered together with my assistant Chryso Panayidou, (PhD Cand).
My contributions to literature include, amongst other, theoretical understandings on educational experience and its social dimensions, the conceptualization of the nexus between thanatourism and emotions, and dynamics and processes associated with the functioning of short-term rental (STR) platforms in tourism (e.g. types of hosts, professionalisation and quality standards, etc.).
This course will be delivered together with my assistant Chryso Panayidou, (PhD Cand).