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The University of Amsterdam developed its own MOOC platform based on Sakai. The first MOOC, Introduction to Communication Science is quite succesfull
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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
