An introduction of the Austrian MOOC-platform imoox.at

1. Introducing
iMooX
November 18th, 2014
Michael Kopp
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2. Academy of New Media
• is a department with 8 part-time working staff-members,
located at the Vice Rectorate for
Studies and Teaching
• offers services and initiatives to motivate teachers
to use New Media and enhance their competence
development
• develops methods, educational strategies and
high-quality solutions aiming at continuous
innovation in learning
• shares and expands its expertise within the
university, with partners and networks

3. Academy of New Media
• Development (models, projects, scenarios,
platforms and services)
• Knowledge transfer (consulting, workshops,
guidelines and recommendations)
• Events and publications
• Cooperation with universities, economy and other
organizations
• Awarding the “ELCH” (E-Learning Champion) for
initiatives and projects that particularly support
New Media for teaching and learning

4. MOOC?
• MASSIVE (attending students do not
know each other)
• OPEN (freely accessible for everyone,
but content is not free)
• ONLINE (accessible every time and
everywhere)
• COURSE (structured like lectures)

5. Austrian MOOC-Platform
• Two universities, one goal
• 60.000 € public funding /
150.000 € costs (60.000 € p.a.)
• 3.700 registered users (so far)
• 10 courses until the end of 2014
• xMOOC (videos, quizzes, forums)
• www.imoox.at

6. Students
• 50% older than 35 years
• 71% employed
• 57% have a bachelor degree
(at least)
• 10% finish the MOOC
• 10% want a certificate
• 85% are satisfied with the platform

8. Distinctiveness
• “Education for everybody”
as the general theme
• All course materials are offered as
Open Educational Resources
• Didactical approach

9. Open Educational Resources?
• Educational resources that can be
freely used and modified
• Using Creative Commons licenses
• Business model that suits taxpayers
• Avoidance of copyright issues

10. Findings
• Consistent design and course
structure means consistent didactic
methods
• Different lecturers means
different approaches
• Less personal resources means
more smart guidelines

11. Why did we do it?
• Always trying to be the first
• Advertising tool
• Support of the life-long-learning-strategy
• Test run for using MOOCs in the
form of regular lectures
• Test run for developing promising
MOOC-business models

12. Thank you for your attention!
Michael Kopp @koanmi
michael.kopp@uni-graz.at
Presentation on Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/anmw/
introducing-imoox