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

1. UvA MOOC , a new challenge !?
Frank Benneker
Innovation working group on the use of ICT in Education & Research

3. 2012, the year of the MOOC

6. UvA ?
Why MOOC’s ?

7. 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 

8. a short history on a kind of MOOC
Webklas
 A course of 4 weeks
 3 - 5 hours a week
 course subjects from
all disciplines

9. 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

10. 2012 , a new brand of UvA MOOC’s
emerges

11. a UvA MOOC Platform, why ?

12. A home Platform offers freedom

13. 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 …..

14. And then you enter ….

16. Elements of UvA MOOC Technology
 Flexible
 Agile
 Forever beta
 Public –private partnership
 Relative young& small partner, Edia

18. Work in progress (always)
http://mooc.uva.nl

20.  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