[Using Sakai] HEC Montreal ran a MOOC course involving more than 3000 students using Sakai CLE 2.8

[Marie-Odile Thibault]

Dear Community,

HEC Montreal is proud to announce that it has successfully launched and 
run a MOOC course involving more than 3000 students using Sakai CLE 2.8. 
You can access our platform and create an account at www.EDUlib.hec.ca 
<https://edulib.hec.ca/portal>

The course taught in French, called  "Introduction au Marketing", was 
launched in November 2012 and ran through early January 2013. Of the 4 
200 students that initially subscribed, 651 completed the course in its 
entirety.

In order to complete the course, students were required to:

    * Watch 6 hour of video (6 weeks of 1 hour classes)
    * Complete readings for each week
    * Pass online quizzes (using Samigo) each week
    * Pass a final quiz (also using Samigo) at the end of the course.

Additionally, students were invited to complete their profiles (using 
the "Profile 2" tool), and to contribute to online forums. Over 1 000 
messages were posted on the Forums. Finally, students could see their 
final results through the Gradebook tool.

Many factors contributed to the success of this first MOOC experience.

    * First, as far as we know it was the first MOOC offered in
      business  in French. Since business is part of everyone's life,
      subjects like Marketing gather huge interest among the general public.
    * Second, Sakai tools proved to be robust enough to support large
      numbers of registered students.
    * Third, server performance was constant despite peaks of over 1 400
      visits a day (for a single course!).
    * Finally, this project required minimal effort from our technical
      teams since all the tools used are included in the Sakai platform.
      The project could be launched quickly following a small amount of
      configuration to suit our needs.

We are continuing with the MOOC's experience. The next course, 
"Comprendre les états financiers" (« Understanding Financial Statements 
»), is to begin soon.

Any comments or questions are welcome,

About HEC Montreal <http://www.hec.ca/en/>
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Marie-Odile Thibault
Chargée de projet
(514) 340-7196
DTI-HEC Montréal
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