[Using Sakai] [DG: Teaching & Learning] HEC Montreal ran a MOOC course involving more than 3000 students using Sakai CLE 2.8

[Benneker, Frank]

Dear Montreal friends,

Good job indeed.
An some nice stats.

At the University of Amsterdam we will try to replicate your success.
We will run our first MOOC (http://mooc.uva.nl) "Introduction to communication Science" within a few weeks. It will start on February 20th. You're more then welcome to pass the url around.

It will a Sakai based MOOC, using Sakai 2.9 and the same tools you've been using at HEC.
We also intend to use the lesson builder tool to design the visuals of the course. And the videos will embedded from Youtube.

I'm quite interested to learn if there any other sakai based MOOC experiences out there. Last week at EuroSakai in Paris I had a nice talk with Ursula Bernal from u-red (http://www.u-red.com.mx) , Mexico. They are also working on a Sakai based MOOC later this year.

It would be great to exchange experiences using Sakai for larger audiences for MOOCs.

Regards,
Frank Benneker
University of Amsterdam


From: Marie-Odile Thibault <marie-odile.thibault at hec.ca<mailto:marie-odile.thibault at hec.ca>>
Organization: HEC Montréal
Date: maandag 4 februari 2013 17:38
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Subject: [DG: Teaching & Learning] HEC Montreal ran a MOOC course involving more than 3000 students using Sakai CLE 2.8

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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