Case

MOOCs: open access to online courses from the world’s best universities

Utrecht University wants to make education accessible to people outside the campus and outside of the Netherlands. By developing MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), they profile themselves as an international institution aiming at the dissemination of knowledge and supporting lifelong learning for professionals.

Utrecht University wants to make education accessible to people outside the campus and outside of the Netherlands. By developing MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), they profile themselves as an international institution aiming at the dissemination of knowledge and supporting lifelong learning for professionals. They asked Elevate to be their partner in developing MOOCs to reach a wider and bigger audience. The MOOC ‘Professionalism in an era of change’ intends to give insight into how recent societal and technological developments have changed the work of professionals in a variety of professional domains and how this in turn affects professionalism. It aims to support target audiences in dealing with professional services and professionals.

Challenge

Utrecht University aims to disseminate its knowledge worldwide and make it accessible to everyone. By doing so, they wish to build on their image and show the world that they are an internationally renowned university.

The numbers

6

MOOCs developed on the coursera platform

35,000

active learners

Solution

For the design of top quality MOOCs, our instructional designers make use of our didactic framework and the Elevate Online Toolbox, which consists of videos, quizzes, texts, animations, assignments and a final exam. Moreover, we have years of experience and in-depth knowledge of the many possibilities of course creation on the Coursera platform. As for the course contents, Elevate works closely together with experts from top universities such as Utrecht University.

 

Results

With the high-quality scientific courses open to and free for everyone, a worldwide audience is able to access scientific topics from the comfort of their own homes.

Elevate has developed 6 MOOCs through our partnership with Utrecht University:
– Ebola: Essential knowledge for health professionals
– Clinical Epidemiology
– Understanding child development: from synapse to society
– Human rights for open societies
– Unravelling solutions for future food problems
– Professionalism in an era of change

All MOOCs are rated with a score of 4.7 out of 5.

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