How to secure quality of MOOCs in cross-sectoral and cross-institutional teams: the case of the BizMOOC project by Darco Jansen, EADTU, 18 September 2018

1. How to secure quality of MOOCs in cross-sectoral / cross-institutional
team: the case of the BizMOOC project
Darco Jansen, EADTU
Maastricht, Netherlands

2. BizMOOC project
Knowledge Alliance to enable a European-wide exploitation of the potential
of MOOCs for the world of business (562286-EPP-1-2015-1-AT-EPPKA2-KA)
Funding Scheme: Erasmus+, KA2 – Knowledge Alliances
Project Duration: 36 months, 1/1/2016 – 31/12/2018
Grant: € 758.264 plus own contribution by partners
Coordinator: FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences, Graz
11 full partners:
Open University (UK), University de Alicante (ES), Burgas Free University (BG),
University of Economics Krakow (PL), AVL List GmbH (AT), Hasso-Plattner-
Institute (DE), DIDA srl (IT), Košice IT Valley (SK), The National Unions of
Students in Europe (BE), EADTU (NL)
www.bizmooc.eu | www.mooc-book.eu | facebook.com/Bizmooc | twitter.com/Bizmoocbook

3. Pilot MOOCs BizMOOC project
1. Learning with MOOC for Professional Development
2. How to generate innovative ideas and how to make
them work
3. Intrapreneurship: Make your Business Great Again
http://bizmooc.eu/pilot-moocs/

4. Quality Assurance spectrum

5. QA MOOC production
• How to secure quality of MOOCs in cross-
sectoral / cross-institutional team
BizMOOC characterics
• Development teams very diverse MOOC knowledge (focus on those
HEIs/companies/countries less involved in MOOCs)
• Different platforms from partners only
• Applying different MOOC types (self-paced, combination c/x-MOOCs)
• Ranging from developing MOOC by (only) re-using existing material to developing
all materials

6. Pre-production phase
• Invest in knowledge of MOOC development
team
-> production of 14 state-the-art papers
(MOOCBOOK: http://bizmooc.eu/mooc-manual/ )
• Get knowledge about characteristics of
different target group
– 55 interviews with companies
– 55 interviews with HEI not involved in MOOCS
– >1000 completed online survey

7. Agreement beforehand on priorities of quality
assurance and evaluation procedures

8. QA and evaluation in 6 steps

9. Review of Design

10. Review by external experts

11. Evaluation by participants

12. Thank you!!!
Darco.Jansen@eadtu.eu
Coordinator
Partner