How a MOOC platform checks the quality of MOOCs by Catherine Mongenet, FUN-MOOC, 18 September 2018

1. HOW DOES THE FUN MOOC PLATFORM
CHECK THE QUALITY OF MOOCS
Catherine Mongenet, CEO, France Université Numérique

2. FUN in a nutshell
October
2013
Launch of the
FUN platform
May
2014
September
2016
January
2018
Public organization
• 31 members
representing about
200 French
universities, schools
and public
institutions
• More than 30 public
and private partners
Creation of a
private branch
• To strengthen the
relationships with
partners
• To reinforce life-
long learning and
continuous
professional
development
Public
consultation
❑ Technology
▪ Open source solution, Platform hosted in France
❑ Data privacy
▪ Personal & learning data, Anonymized data for
research labs
❑ Editorial policy
▪ Open to all French universities
▪ Editorial committee to integrate partners
▪ Quality charter
❑ A community of practice

3. Quality assurance charter
• Defined during Summer 2013 by a working group of
experts from universities
• 3 main principles :
– Setting up of a collaborative team which offers appropriate
pedagogical and technical competences
– Producing pedagogical documents (videos, texts, images,
etc.) in compliance with the media and the audience
– Offering services and activities adapted to a large number
of participants : forum, peer evaluation…
• Training sessions and shared documents