From September 2017, UCLouvain will take part to a pilot experiment with other European universities. Some students (from Louvain Engineering School at a pilot) will be invited to choose online courses from other universities as elective courses in their annual courses program. After a (successful!) regular on-campus exam, they'll get official credits in their degree program.
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See the credit-eligible online courses for 2018-2019 |
Advantages
- The portfolio of elective courses is enriched for students
- Students can benefit from worldwide academic expertise
- Flexible learning experience entirely online, accessible 24/7
- Opportunity to experiment diverse learning experiences: diverse teaching methods, types of exercises and assessment, learning medias...
- Depending on the chosen course, opportunity to practice another language
- Opportunity to develop a worldwide network through discussion forums and social networks used in the course
Quality warranties
- The online course is assessed through an in-class proctored exam
- The professor offering the MOOC sets the assessment modalities and grades the exam for virtual students as well as for "his·her" local students
- Collaboration processes between institutions (students enrollment, grade exchange...) are those - used for years - of the Erasmus exchanges
- The condition allowing a MOOC to be offered to international students is that it's also offered to local students, aiming the same learning outcomes and giving the same number of ECTS credits
Partners
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH, initiator
- TU Delft, NL
- Leiden University, NL
- Wagenigen University, NL
- Université catholique de Louvain, BE
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES
- Sorbonne University, FR