uva mooc, a new challenge

UvA MOOC , a new challenge !?UvA MOOC , a new challenge !?

Frank BennekerInnovation working group on the use of ICT in Education & Research

2012, the year of the MOOC2012, the year of the MOOC

UvA ? UvA ?

Why MOOC’s ?Why MOOC’s ?

Business

Getting the right student in the right place

Branding & exposure

Profile & usage data harvesting

The other reasons …

Experiment

To learn, & research on learning

Just being nice

Webklas

A course of 4 weeks

3 - 5 hours a week

course subjects from

all disciplines

a short history on a kind of MOOC a short history on a kind of MOOC

Why a MOOC avant la lettre ?Why a MOOC avant la lettre ?

Around since 2002

open for everyone, online & free

fully webbased

branding & focused on prospective students

self paced & user in control

2012 , a new brand of UvA MOOC’s emerges

a UvA MOOC Platform, why ?

A home Platform offers freedom

Freedom to:

Own your data , including profile data

To have a platform to experiment with & learn

Make mistakes and learn from them

Full control over usage and usage data

Full control over functionality

The technology is not exactly “rocket science”

And it’s fun & thrilling to try something new …..

And then you enter ….

Elements of UvA MOOC Technology

Flexible

Agile

Forever beta

Public –private partnership Relative young& small partner, Edia

http://mooc.uva.nl

Work in progress (always)

aantal cursisten in de MOOC : 4619 Aantal cursisten die minimaal een keer zijn ingelogd : 2074

De bezoekers aantallen per dag van de lectures pagina in de MOOC

Date Total 2/24/13 4047 2/23/13 3198 2/22/13 3724 2/21/13 6406 2/20/13 13305