MOOC course at HAMK

MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) means an online course that is open to everyone and accessible regardless of time and place. MOOCs are one way to implement open education and enable the accumulation of competence for all those who wish, regardless of basic education. HAMK has defined the purposes and criteria for the MOOC offering.

In HAMK MOOC course

• should be designed as part of students’ competence paths and RDI projects.
• should inspire and interest a wide range of participants.
• anyone can participate in the course.
• language of the course can be Finnish or English.
• must be credited (1-5 credits).
• must be at the university of applied sciences level (EQF 6 or 7) and contain competence goals.

Steps in planning and designing a MOOC course

• Searching for a topic 
  • Course topics are brainstormed as part of curriculum work and RDI activities.
• Approval of the course topic 
  • At HAMK, course topic proposals are approved by the Continuous Learning Steering Group.
• Course design and scripting 
  • MOOC courses will be designed and developed according to the high quality module impelementation model.
• Building a course in Moodle 
  • The course will be build on mooc.hamk.fi. Guidance and support will be provided.  
• Implementation plan for course 
  • An implementation plan is drawn up for the course, the details of which are posted on the Open University of Applied Sciences’ course offerings.    
• Completed course, its marketing and recommendations to continue studies on the subject 
  • The course is featured on HAMK’s marketing communication channels. 
• Evaluation, update and development of the MOOC course 
  • The course teacher will evaluate performance, update and develop the course as agreed

Building a course on Moodle and support available

MOOC courses are built on mooc.hamk.fi environment (opens in new window) where they are offered to students. The course teachers and developers apply for access to the environment using the ServiceDesk ticket (opens in new window). Students log in to the environment with their chosen email address.

Support is available for HAMK staff to design and build MOOC courses. There is a workspace on Learn environment (opens in new window) where you can find more detailed information on development guidelines, support options and agreed practices for MOOCs at HAMK. Request access to the workspace with ServiceDesk ticket (opens in new window).

Read more

• 24/7 implementations: On the Plus Side: Flexible implementations and study mode in focus
• Criteria for MOOCs Purposes and criteria for MOOC
• How to design high quality module implementation: Design quality for module implementation
• Various quality criteria: Quality criteria
• Quality criteria for open education: How to account for the quality of OER
• Open science: Open education