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MOOC: How to make a MOOC? (Coursera)

Offered by Novosibirsk State University,
MOOC: How to make a MOOC? (Coursera)

This course made by Novosibirsk State University and Lektorium, one of the largest MOOC publisher in Russia, covers the process of creating modern online courses. Nowadays it’s time for experiments in online education. There’s no unified quality standard, and no one knows for now how to make it right. But if you’re good at formats and technologies, you can be flexible and choose the most efficient tools to develop your course.

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We’ll show you in detail the key approaches to creating popular and efficient online courses.
We’ll introduce you to various formats and show our internal chemistry: share with you our experience, secrets and life hacks.
You’ll learn basic trends in online education and find out which stages are included in developing an online course, and what is important on each stage of course development.
How to organize the production of educational videos?
What are the appropriate formats?
How to open up an inexperienced speaker?
What is critical to consider at the cutting stage?
How to support online courses after launch, and what should be considered when creating quizzes and other types of graded and ungraded assignments?
Join our course, and design your own MOOC with us!

Syllabus

WEEK 1: Online education trens. MOOC
WEEK 2: Course projecting
WEEK 3: Course Production
WEEK 4: How to cook a MOOC at home?
WEEK 5: Launch and support of the course

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