Dear MOOC enthusiasts, dear openHPI community,

We are looking forward to two exciting e-learning conferences: the seventh European MOOCs Stakeholder Summit (EMOOCs 2021) and Learning at Scale 2021 (L@S 2021) will be happening as online conferences.

Bringing together EMOOCs 2021 and Learning at Scale 2021 combines international, top-quality educational research with teaching practitioners, platform providers, policy-makers, and education businesses. We look forward to welcoming you to our “double” conference on 22-24 June, 2021!

Diverse Program
In the light of the coronavirus pandemic, the double conference will focus on the experiences that education providers around the world have made in switching from traditional face-to-face teaching to hybrid or fully online formats. Among others, leading representatives of the international learning platforms Coursera, edX and FutureLearn will report and answer questions online. Participants at the EMOOCs 2021/L@S conference will discuss the state of play in the dissemination of open online courses for all interested parties in Europe. Topics will include best practices in the production, quality assurance, and certification of such Massive Open Online Courses, but also the modernisation of higher education teaching, labour market aspects, marketing issues, and opportunities in the health sector.

Renowned Keynote Speakers
We are very happy to welcome renowned keynote speakers, who are set to cover a wide variety of topics. Gaya Gamhewage, head of learning and capacity development for WHO's health emergencies program will talk about how WHO managed to fight the pandemic through its knowledge transfer platform OpenWHO. Another highlight will be the keynote by physicist and complexity researcher Geoffrey West. He is the author of the 2017 work Scale: The Universal Laws of Life of Organisms, Cities and Companies. Georgi Dimitrov, who is responsible for the unit Digital Education in the European Commission, will introduce us to the Digital Education Action Plan. Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera, will discuss the role of institutions in responding to the global skills crisis. Sanna Jarvela, from the University of Oulu, Finland, will take a look at how human capabilities and the development of new digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, can go hand in hand with education. Last but not least, Eslami Motahhare from Carnegie Mellon University will take us into the world of algorithmic systems.

Who's the conference for?
We welcome lecturers and managers from the education sector, as well as company representatives who are involved in the topic of digital advanced education.

The conferences are especially aimed at MOOCs and e-learning practitioners.

Please click here to register: https://emoocs.hpi.de/index.php/registration/.

Best regards
the openHPI team

Are you interested in process mining, cybersecurity or bitcoin? Then you shouldn’t miss the following openHPI courses:

A Step-by-Step Introduction to Process Mining (start May 5)
Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske (Hasso Plattner Institute) and Prof. Dr. Henrik Leopold (Kühne Logistics University) will introduce you to the basics of process mining in this free two-week English-language course. In this course, you will learn what data is generated in the course of a business process and how you can convert this date into events. You will also learn about the potential of process mining, for example in identifying potential compliance issues.

You can register for the course here:
https://open.hpi.de/courses/processmining2021

Cybersecurity Basics Exam
Starting March 1, you will have the opportunity to test your cybersecurity knowledge. The free Cybersecurity Basics exam builds on the content of the three workshop courses: Confidential Communication in the Internet, Digital Identities, and Cyberthreats by Malware. To take the exam, participants must have a confirmation of participation in all three of the named courses. You can start the courses at any time on a self-paced basis and complete them on a fast-track basis. You will receive the confirmation of participation if you have studied at least 80% of the required learning materials. Upon successfully passing the exam, you will receive a certificate.

You can register for the exam here:
https://open.hpi.de/courses/cybersec-exam-4

Blockchain - Revealing the Myth
Starting March 17, HPI Director Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel and researcher Tatiana Gayvoronskaya will dispel myths surrounding blockchain technology. In the free 2-week course Blockchain - Revealing the Myth for advanced learners, participants will learn more about the ideas and goals that motivated the developers of the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ether. You will also learn about blockchain alternatives and reflect on experiences with this technology.

Click here to register:
https://open.hpi.de/courses/blockchain2021

We look forward to welcoming you to our courses. Also, feel free to share our course information with colleagues and acquaintances.

Best regards
the mooc.house team

If you are distance learning or just want to learn programming, we have a good offer for you! On March 10 our German language programming courses for students will start on Lernen.cloud.

In two online courses, interested teenagers and young-at-heart adults can learn the programming languages Java and Python in a playful way. The material is divided into small learning units (videos, practical programming tasks, multiple choice tests, and additional reading material). In the discussion forum, participants can exchange ideas and ask the course teams questions.

Both courses run over a period of 10 weeks (until May 18) and are divided into four modules. The workload is 2-3 hours per week.

Java - Object Oriented Programming for Students
This course is aimed at high school students (from grade 10) who have already gained some experience in programming. The openHPI Java team takes you into the world of detective Duke. Help him to find the kidnapped parrot by solving different programming tasks. Along the way you will learn what variables, objects, classes and methods are and how a Java program is structured.

Go here to register:
https://lernen.cloud/courses/javaeinstieg-schule2021

Python - Learning to program by playing
This course is aimed at students from grade 7 and up. The student course team introduces the basics of the Python programming language. Through simple programming exercises you will learn what loops and functions are and how to control a virtual turtle through programming.

Go here to register:
https://lernen.cloud/courses/pythonjunior-schule2021

Recommended listening: HPI podcast episode on digital education.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hasso Plattner Institute's learning platforms around openHPI have experienced a large increase in user:inside. In the current "Neuland" podcast, HPI Director Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel discusses the importance of social learning with host Leon Stebe and explains how formats can work in digital knowledge transfer. Listen to the current episode now at podcast.hpi.de or in your podcatcher and subscribe to our "Neuland" podcast.

We look forward to hearing from you!
Feel free to share this course information with students, friends, colleagues and acquaintances who want to learn programming.

Best regards
the mooc.house team

Our partner platform openSAP has reason to celebrate - it has broken the barrier of 1 million learners. We congratulate you on this achievement!
We have been working together with the openSAP team for 7 years with great success. As the first enterprise platform for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), openSAP offers a variety of free online courses - topics range from SAP's latest innovations to digital transformation and contributions from global thought leaders. We are looking forward to the further cooperation and to reaching the next milestone together!

We are pleased to announce the new course "Co-Innovation Journey for Startups and Corporates" (in English) starting on April 22.

Maybe, you have already experienced it yourself: The collaboration between startups, corporates and universities often is challenging. What are typical obstacles and benefits for cooperations? We are addressing all these issues in our course.

Join our learning community and discuss with us about:

• recognize the benefits and challenges of startup-corporate collaboration,
  
• characterize the urgency of innovation in the corporate world,
  
• find and examine matches between potential partners,
  
• distinguish and explore existing formats of collaboration,
  
• understand both startups and corporates
• apply dedicated tools and techniques to overcome collaboration challenges
  

This course has been developed under the umbrella of the CORSHIP project, which is co-funded by the European Commission. The developing team consists of experts from universities (FH Joanneum, Austria; Cracow University of Economics, Poland; Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany), businesses (AVL List GmbH, Austria; Beta-i, Portugal), and the European Startup Network.

Who should attend the course?
The course is open for everyone. We would like to invite in particular entrepreneurs, managers, students, and anyone else excited about innovation to join the course and get connected.

Interested? Then please enroll in the course here: https://mooc.house/courses/corship2020/

We are looking forward to seeing you in the course!

Best regards,
The CORSHIP team

We are pleased to announce a new MOOC on the channel of acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering, which starts on April 1st. After Hands-on Industrie 4.0, Maschinelles Lernen and Smart Service Welt, a 3-week course on the highly relevant topic Technologie, Strategie und Leadership is following (in German).

The digital transformation changes our understanding of work and is accompanied by a shift towards data-based business models, digital ecosystems and the evolution towards a platform economy. This requires new demands on employees. New management and leadership concepts are also necessary.

The focus of this course is to answer the questions of how the use of new technologies affects existing strategies, corporate structures and organizational cultures and which competence and requirement profiles of employees and managers become more important in the course of digital transformation. In order to demonstrate the opportunities and solutions, acatech, together with the European School of Management and Technology Berlin (ESMT), has won renowned representatives from business, science and society to contribute to this course.

You can expect theoretically sound, application-oriented and cross-industry orientation knowledge in the areas of strategy, organization and culture, talents in the digital age and leadership skills in digital change. You will receive a certificate for successful participation in this MOOC.

The three-week German-language course starts with the Hannover Messe on 01 April 2019.

If you are interested in this course, you can register free of charge here: https://mooc.house/courses/tsl-2019.

We look forward to your participation and a further dissemination of this course offer in your network!

Many greetings the mooc.house team

The year is coming to an end, and we would like to take the opportunity to thank all who have actively been a part of the openHPI community.

Big Year-End Survey

We would like to know more about how helpful and sustainable our online courses are for our learners daily lives. We have therefore created a year-end survey and would be very grateful if as many of you as possible could participate. The survey takes approximately 5 to 10 minutes. Thank you very much in advance. With your participation you help us to improve the platform and especially the certification process.

Click here to go to the survey: https://tools.openhpi.de/survey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=487211&newtest=Y&lang=en

New Courses on openHPI

For those who have not yet seen it, last week, we released the openHPI course program for 2019 with lots of new courses.
Besides a series of workshops on the topic of the “Basics of Cybersecurity,” we are looking forward to focusing on issues such as design thinking, intercultural teamwork, 50 years of Internet, and patent law. Furthermore, we are happy to offer a junior course entitled “How to program my first mini-computer,” which addresses young people who are 13 and older in particular.
Some courses will be added within the coming weeks and during the course of the next year. It is therefore worth your while to regularly check the openHPI website. We hope you enjoy browsing the courses and discovering those of interest to you!

Unchartered Waters – The HPI Knowledge Podcast (in German)

Last but not least, we’d like to mention our new podcast series, which kicks off HPI’s 20th anniversary celebration.
We start on January 9th with the title “Digital New Territory – The HPI Knowledge Podcast.” Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel will present the new format which picks up exciting topics from HPI. Every two weeks you can listen to a new program on https://hpi.de/medien/podcast.html. The series will be moderated by Leon Stebe, the reporter of Inforadio-News.

We wish you happy holidays and a great new year!
The openHPI Team

Rechtzeitig zur kalten Jahreszeit zeigt das Institut für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin an der Charité Berlin erneut den 4-wöchigen deutschsprachigen Kurs "Rationale Antibiotikatherapie in der hausärztlichen Versorgung".

Darum geht's
Nach einer kurzen Einführung erwartet Sie in der ersten Woche unter anderem die Epidemiologie ausgewählter multiresistenter Erreger, sowie Videobeiträge zum ambulanten Antibiotikaverbrauch. In der zweiten Woche werden Grundlagen der Präanalytik und der rationalen Antibiotikatherapie erläutert. Außerdem werden wir einen Blick auf das menschliche Mikrobiom werfen, sowie auf unkomplizierte Harnwegsinfektionen. In der dritten Woche liegt der Schwerpunkt auf den akuten Atemwegsinfektionen (Rhinosinusitis, Tonsillopharyngitis, akute Bronchitis, akute Exazerbation einer COPD & ambulant erworbenen Pneumonie).

In der vierten und letzten Woche wird die akute Gastroenteritis und die Reiseassoziierte Diarrhoe vorgestellt werden. Des Weiteren finden sich allgemeine Vorträge zur rationalen Antibiotikaanwendung.

Für wen ist der Kurs gedacht?
Der Kurs richtet sich in erster Linie an Ärztinnen und Ärzte in der hausärztlichen Versorgung, kann aber auch für die Tätigkeit in Rettungsstellen, Ambulanzen oder ähnlichen Einrichtungen hilfreich sein.

Gut zu wissen
Der Kurs wurde im März 2017 aufgenommen. Er repräsentiert entsprechend den damaligen Wissensstand, wurde aber auf Aktualität überprüft. Aufgrund der sehr positiven Resonanz wird er nun erneut angeboten. Eine CME-Zertifizierung wurde bei der Ärztekammer Berlin beantragt.

Interesse geweckt? Dann melden Sie sich am besten gleich hier für den Onlinekurs an und erhalten Sie alle weiteren Informationen zu diesem Angebot ganz einfach per E-Mail: https://mooc.house/courses/rai1-2

Wir würden uns freuen, Sie im Kurs begrüßen zu dürfen. Geben Sie den Hinweis auch gerne an Freunde und Bekannte weiter, für die das Thema von Interesse sein könnte.

Viele Grüße
das mooc.house-Team

Fantastic news! Our Intrapreneurship MOOC realized as part of the BizMOOC project made it in the Top 3 of the Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship Excellence Award at ECIE 2018 in Aveiro, Porto.

Out of 32 submission, 11 creative and high quality teaching approaches were selected for the Final round and invited to present their cases in Aveiro, Porto at the 13th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in front of an international jury. Chris (FH Joanneum) and Agnes (Cracow University of Economics) presented the MOOC on Intrapreneurship and even made it to the Top 3, where they got invited to do a second presentation to the whole conference audience before the conference closure. We feel extremely honored to became part of this exclusive circle.

By the way, if you are interested in the course, feel free to enroll and work through the material in self-study. It is still accessible on mooc.house: https://mooc.house/courses/bizmooc2018.

Besides, we also presented the poster “Rescue through the back-door: Can MOOCs become a large-scale bottom-up innovation driver in companies?”, based on BizMOOC results.

The Internet of Things compels us to think about new data communication regulations. In the 2-week online course “IPv6 in Modern Networks” (in German), which begins on June 11, network expert Wilhelm Boeddinghaus will explain to us the Internet protocol which is the new standard for data exchange in the network of networks.

What it’s about
With the growing number of devices communicating through the Internet, we will soon need many more addresses than those presently available in the current standard. No matter if we look at home automation, transport, or medicine – in numerous areas things communicate with other things over the Internet. For just one device, often a number of sensors feed their data into the network. To enable the Internet to grow even more, the new Internet protocol IPv6 was introduced which provides a lot more addresses than the former IPv4 protocol.

In this course, Wilhelm Boeddinghaus explains the technical basics for the introduction of the new Internet protocol, and he clarifies where we get the addresses from and how they are structured. Furthermore, he shows the concrete steps that need to be taken to define a strategy for successfully implementing IPv6.

Who should attend the course?
The course primarily targets network experts and system administrators from companies, public authorities, and academic institutions.

Good to know
You should plan a time allotment of 3 hours per week to complete the course successfully. In this course you can receive a confirmation of participation and a record of achievement (further information about the certificates). Participation in the course and exam is free.

Did we spark your interest? Then enroll now on https://open.hpi.de/courses/ipv6-2018.

Best regards,
The openHPI team

We are happy to announce a new course on the channel of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), starting on April 23. Following "Hands-on Industry 4.0" and "Machine Learning", a 4-week course on smart services (in German) is being offered.

Smart Service Welt (in German)

Digital transformation creates potential for the development of innovative business models on which smart services can be realized. Smart Services are data- and platform-based services which complement the offer of purely physical products and allow a flexible and individual orientation tailored to the customers’ needs. acatech and Accenture have brought together experts from business, academia, and politics to explain to a broad public the operating principles, requirements and possibilities of such services. Look forward to theoretical knowledge as well as practical, cross-sectoral orientational knowledge in the fields of business model innovation, technological enablers, management and corporate structure, and best practices. Upon successful completion of the course, you have the chance to receive a certificate.

Are you interested? Please enroll here to the free online course at: https://mooc.house/courses/ssw-2018

We look forward to seeing you in the course and thank you for sharing this information in your network. An English version of this course will follow on June 19, 2018 on https://open.sap.com/courses/ssw1-tl.

Information Service Engineering (in English)

If you want to learn more about semantic search and machine learning or if you work as a data or web scientist, the openHPI course Information Service Engineering which starts on April 16 might be of particular interest.

In this 6-week course (in English) participants will learn the fundamentals of natural language processing as well as the basics of Linked Data-based knowledge representation. The course will be taught by Harald Sack, who was a senior researcher at the HPI for many years and is currently a professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In today's world, access to and availability of information are almost unlimited. As a result, we need search engines and intelligent programs to process these vast amounts of data. It is crucial to achieve ever more precise, more complete, and more reliable results when searching for and linking knowledge. This is achieved, for example, by systems that detect and correct errors. In this course, Prof. Sack and his colleague, Dr. Maria Koutraki will introduce methods that enable the transition from raw data to well-structured knowledge. ”We will demonstrate how natural language texts can be analyzed using statistical models and machine learning, and how this information can be described with the help of formal knowledge representation,” Prof. Sack explains. He will also show how automated image and video analysis function, how handwritten messages are translated into machine-readable language, and how computers programs are able to read printed texts. For successful participation learners can get a record of achievement, and in addition a qualified certificate for which HPI offers credit points.

Did we spark your interest? Then enroll here for free: https://open.hpi.de/courses/semanticweb2017

Best regards
the mooc.house Team

openHPI goes NY!

The openHPI team will make its first trip to NYC in April 2018. In a two-day symposium, we will share our research and innovative developments at HPI’s New York offices, which were opened in April 2017.

On the first day of the symposium, we will present features, innovations and user experiences from HPI’s innovative MOOC platform as well as some of our partners’ platforms, including openSAP and openWHO. The second day will be dedicated to current research questions, such as learning analytics, gamification, and MOOC completion rates. In addition to the HPI presenters, well-known researchers like Justin Reich (MIT), Prof. Neil Heffernan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and David A. Joyner (Georgia Tech) will provide us with insights into their recent projects.

We are looking forward to a lively exchange with our American colleagues, engaging presentations, and interactive workshops as well as many inspiring moments in the Big Apple!

We would like to welcome anyone who is interested in MOOCs and MOOC research to join us for this free event. Additional information and the registration form can be found here: https://events.sap.com/us/sap-hpi-mooc-event/en/home

We wish you a happy new year and all the best for you and your beloved ones!

We would like to start the year with two absolutely exciting courses, which we want to strongly recommend to you:

• Intrapreneurship – Make your Business great again. Learn how to realize new ideas within your organization and how to support your employees in this innovation process (in English language)
  
• Learning 4.0, a MOOC which shows the possibilities and limits of digitization in the education system (in German language).

Intrapreneurship - Make your Business great again

This course has been developed under the umbrella of the EU project BizMOOC and is offered by the Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, FH Joanneum Graz, University of Economics Cracow and AVL List GmbH.

What it’s about?
Do you have a great business idea, but you do not dare to take the risk alone and leave your current job? The course clarifies the intrapreneurship concept, outlines its opportunities for companies and employees, and introduces different practical tools to get started. You will learn to identify opportunities, to form coalitions and find sponsors, and to deliver a pitch to the various audiences, including the board of directors.

Who should attend the course
The course’s core target audience are managers who want to learn how to create an intrapreneurship-friendly environment in their company and employees who want to follow the entrepreneurial spirit. We also highly welcome students, people between jobs, and everybody who is just interested in the topic.

Good to know
The 6-week course (in English language) starts on February 26, 2018. All of you with limited amount of time have the chance to complete the course with exam and certificate after 4 weeks (fast track). If you bring a little bit more time you are able to take part in a teamwork and to pitch your own business idea in week 5 and 6 which qualifies you for the Certificate of Completion (full track). The course will be completely online (including the teamwork).

Please enroll here: https://mooc.house/courses/bizmooc2018

Learning 4.0 – Possibilities and Limits of digitization in the education sector

This course was developed within the framework of the German School Cloud project. It is realized by the Hasso Plattner Institute and the national school network of excellence MINT-EC in cooperation with the University of Augsburg.

What it’s about?
Digitization penetrates the education sector but teachers are rarely prepared for the associated changes. Current challenges lie in the systematical usage of digital media in class, in the reflection about successful digitization in a school context, as well as in the development of utilization concepts and didactic concepts. In this course, we will discuss main aspects of a digitization in a school context, show benefits and limits of digital media in the education sector, and establish a basis for the successful integration of the School Cloud by the Hasso Plattner Institute at school.

Who should attend the course?
The online course addresses first of all teachers and parents who ask themselves how digital media can enrich teaching and what are its limits. Furthermore, we welcome everyone who is interested in a successful digitization in the education sector. Being part of the School Cloud project is no requirement for taking the course.

Good to know
The German course will start on January 15 and end on April 16, 2018. Within these three months it will cover four modules. In the end you will receive a confirmation of participation.

Please enroll here: https://mooc.house/courses/lernen40-2018

We are looking forward to meet you in one of the courses! Please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested in the topics.

Best regards
The mooc.house team

On December 6 and 7, 2017, we would like to invite you to our openHPI forum, the annual get together for everyone who wants to know more about and discuss MOOCs and innovative forms of digital education.

This year we will take the opportunity to discuss in which different situations MOOCs are used. Thus, the name of this year’s forum: “From Digital Enlightenment to Business Training – Successful Use of MOOCs in Companies and Institutions”. Listen to experience reports from representatives of different areas who have developed their own online courses last year. Learn in interactive workshops how to proceed step by step if you want to realize your own digital learning offer.

On the pre-conference-day, we will organize a BarCamp with 4 parallel sessions. In addition to the already scheduled sessions, participants are welcome to pitch their own workshop ideas on the day itself. Besides those from our openSAP partners, we are looking forward to sessions by the HPI tele TASK team and the openHPI team. Join us and the other participants in sharing your experiences at the reception party afterwards.

On the conference day, Thursday, December 7th, we look forward to exciting talks and panel discussions on current research topics. The following experts will be with us to present their ideas:

• Sylvi Rzepka, RWI Essen
  
• Prof. Dr. Petra Gastmeier, Charité Berlin
  
• Prof. Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler, University of Mannheim
  
• Michaela Lämmler und Clemens Link, openSAP
  
• Lena Mayer, Karen von Schmieden und Mana Taheri, HPI School of Design Thinking
  
• Dr. Stephan Melzer, msg systems
  
• Heini Utunen und Yu Zhao, World Health Organization
  
• Christian Willems, openHPI team
  
• Gabi Witthaus, Art of E-Learning
  
• Natalie Cernecka, EdTech expert
  

Program and Registration at https://hpi.de/veranstaltungen/hpi-veranstaltungen/2017/openhpi-forum-2017.html.

The registration fee for the 2-day event is 75 €. The program is in German and English (see title of the relevant talk in the Agenda). Translators for non-German speakers will be available. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Potsdam!

Best regards
The mooc.house team

We are glad to announce that after the Android App the iOS app for https://mooc.house/ is live now. All iPad and iPhone users can easily access the mooc.house learning material from everywhere.

Check it out now: Install the app and enjoy an even greater flexibility. We are looking forward to your feedback!

You can download the app here.

Best wishes
the mooc.house team

On July 10 a new online course will start on mooc.house covering the topic of "Rational Antibiotic Therapy in GP care" (in German). The course is targeted at general practitioners, in particular specialists for internal medicine and for general medicine.

In the 4-week course, the instructors Prof. Dr. Petra Gastmeier, Dr. Florian Salm, Dr. Tobias Kramer and Dr. Cornelius Remschmidt will examine the issue of multi-resistent pathogens, the human microbiome, urinary tract and respiratory infections and acute gastroenteritis - to name just a few keywords.

Did we spark your interest? You can watch the trailer and enroll in the course here.

More courses on openHPI

The 2-week workshop, which starts on Monday, July 3, deals with a completely different topic: "Embedded Smart Home" (in German). Martin Malchow and Matthias Bauer, both researchers at the chair for Internet Technologies and Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute, explain, for example, how sensors are used to control external actuators such as a lamp or blinds.

For further information and registration please click here.

Best regards,
the mooc.house team

Recently, the openHPI team, which started the mooc.house platform some years ago, joined the European BizMOOC project.

We are glad about this opportunity to exchange our MOOC experience with colleagues and researchers all over Europe. We are aiming at merging our knowledge and making it available to all interested stakeholders.

BizMOOC - What is it about?

The project tackles the European challenge of enabling businesses, labour force and universities to increase their activities and exploitation (economies of scale) of the MOOC potential. This will be achieved by creating common standards on MOOCs by integrating the experiences from Higher Education and the business world. The most important result will be the open access MOOC Book, which provides recommendations, guidelines, methods and strategies. Moreover, we'll produce 3 pilot MOOCs focussing on topics such as entrepreneurship and innovation, of which one will run at mooc.house. We'll inform you in good time before the start.

The MOOC Book - Core of the Project

The MOOC Book is the free online resource to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for businesses, workforce and universities. It contains guidelines, good practice and recommendations how to apply MOOCs, opportunities for the use of MOOCs and hot topics such as quality, business models or certification.

What is the right type of MOOC for me? Where can I find MOOCs for certain topics? Do universities recognize learning done through MOOCs? Are MOOCs only an extra expense or also a possible new income source for universities? What are possible reasons for companies to provide MOOCs themselves? What are the technical requirements? This is only a selection of questions which are raised and publicly discussed in the MOOC Book.

Did we spark your interest? Here you find the full text. We are looking forward to your comments!

Best regards,
the mooc.house Team

We are looking forward to welcome you at this year's CeBIT which takes place from March 20 to March 24 in Hannover.

At CeBIT 2017 in hall 6 at booth E18, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) is presenting current research projects from the areas of IT security, digital education, eHealth and Design Thinking in line with this year’s motto: "Growing Together". Here you find more information about the different projects.

We would gladly present you the new features of our MOOC platforms such as team peer assessment and the qualified certificate. You would like to provide your own MOOCs? We will be happy to advise you on the MOOC production and our varied packages to host a course on mooc.house.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Best regards
the mooc.house Team

Assistance systems running on your smartphone or the autopilot in your car – behind it usually stands Artificial Intelligence (AI) or machine learning.

You want to get a first insight how to teach machines learning skills? An online course will be offered free of charge by acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence starting on March 20, 2017.

The course will provide a profound insight into this key technology of AI. Over the course of three weeks, scientists, business experts, developers and operators will take you through methods, tools and application areas of machine learning. Specific application examples, such as solutions from the automotive, retail and healthcare industry or the financial sector, will offer you an overview of problems that have been solved with the help of machine learning.

In order to enroll, a registration via email will suffice. The registration and course schedule can be found at: https://mooc.house/courses/machinelearning-2016

We are looking forward to your participation!

Kind regards,
Johannes Melzer
Personal Assistant Henning Kagermann, acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering
Mail: melzer@acatech.de

Viele Unternehmen überlegen derzeit, wie sie die digitale Transformation angehen sollen. Eine Hilfestellung und Anregungen dazu bietet der kostenlose Onlinekurs

Mastering Digital Transformation

auf mooc.house: https://mooc.house/courses/msg

In diesem 6-wöchigen Kurs der msg systems werden jede Woche 6-8 kurze Einzelbeiträge zu einem konkreten Thema der Digitalen Transformation freigeschaltet. Hier geben wir Einblicke in neue Geschäftsmodelle, Technologien und die aktuelle Forschung der Digitalen Transformation. In vielen Praxisbeispielen zeigen wir die Transformation in verschiedenen Branchen und in der Produktion sowie die Auswirkungen auf das Arbeitsleben.

Wir freuen uns sehr, Sie zu diesem Kurs zu begrüßen und auf einen regen Austausch im Forum.

Teilnehmer erhalten eine Teilnahmebestätigung und können bei Interesse gern auch durch das Ablegen einer Prüfung ein Zertifikat erwerben.

Bis bald im Kurs
Stephan Melzer und das Teaching Team

Am 13.2. startet auf mooc.house der Kurs „Mastering Digital Transformation“, zu dem wir Sie herzlich einladen möchten.

Der Digitale Wandel ist längst mit großen Schritten im Gange und es gibt kaum noch ein Unternehmen, das sich nicht mit der Digitalen Transformation, ihren Folgen und Möglichkeiten auseinandersetzt. Doch was versteht man eigentlich darunter? Was bedeutet es konkret für meinen Arbeitgeber, mein eigenes Unternehmen, meine Branche oder gar für mich als Person? Welche Strategien sind die Richtigen, die Chancen und Potenziale der Digitalisierung zu heben? Wo stehen wir heute, wohin werden uns die digitalen Technologien in der Arbeitswelt führen und vor allen Dingen: Wie kann ich die Zukunft einer digitalen Welt im Berufsleben (mit)gestalten? Dieser MOOC „Mastering Digital Transformation – Adding Value to your Business“ richtet sich an alle, die auf diese Fragen eine Antwort suchen.

In den sechs Kurswochen informieren wir Sie über die Folgen und Möglichkeiten der digitalen Transformation. Namhafte Referenten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis werden in Einzelbeiträgen Einblick in Forschungsinnovationen geben, verschiedene Strategien und Geschäftsmodelle präsentieren und Chancen und Möglichkeiten vorstellen. Sie zeigen, was bereits umgesetzt oder gerade in Planung ist und welche Auswirkungen dies auf unser tägliches Arbeitsleben hat. Weitere Informationen sowie die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung zum Kurs finden Sie auf der Kurswebseite: https://mooc.house/courses/msg.

Natürlich gibt es für die Teilnahme am Kurs eine Teilnahmebescheinigung sowie die Möglichkeit im Anschluss an den Kurs einen Multiple-Choice-Test abzulegen und ein Zeugnis zu erwerben.

Wir freuen uns, wenn Sie aktiv am Kurs teilnehmen, sich im Diskussionsforum vernetzen und gemeinsam mit uns Einblicke in das Meistern der Digitalen Transformation gewinnen.

Viele Grüße
Dr. Stephan Melzer und das Teaching Team „Mastering Digital Transformation“

In Kürze starten zwei neue Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) auf den HPI-eigenen Plattformen: "Hands-on Industrie 4.0" und "Einführung in die Testgetriebene Entwicklung mit JUnit".

Am Montag fällt auf mooc.house der Startschuss für den Onlinekurs zur Industrie 4.0, einer Kooperation des HPI und der Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech). Eine Woche später, am 2. Mai, startet auf openHPI der 2-wöchige Workshop "Einführung in die Testgetriebene Entwicklung mit JUnit". Ralf Teusner und Thomas Staubitz - beide als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter am HPI tätig und unter openHPI-Lernern bereits bekannt - führen durch den Kurs.

Onlinekurs zur Industrie 4.0

Was bringt mir die Teilnahme?
Was ist Industrie 4.0? Welche Ziele werden damit verfolgt? Wie wandelt Industrie 4.0 Arbeitsprozesse? Was heißt das konkret für die Arbeitnehmer? Welche neuen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen sollten in Unternehmen getroffen werden? Wie kann ich Industrie 4.0 systematisch in meinem Betrieb einführen? Das ist nur eine Auswahl der Fragen, die im Kurs diskutiert und beantwortet werden. Die Teilnahme am Kurs soll Klarheit über den Begriff schaffen und anhand von Expertenmeinungen und einer Vielzahl von Praxisbeispielen Hilfestellung bei der Umsetzung von Industrie 4.0 geben. Außerdem haben die Teilnehmer die Möglichkeit, im Diskussionsforum mit den beteiligten Referenten aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft zu diskutieren und ihre Fragen zu stellen. Am Ende des Kurses gibt es eine Teilnahmebestätigung für alle, die mindestens 50% des Lernstoffes bearbeitet haben.

An wen richtet sich der Kurs?
Der Kurs richtet sich einerseits an Unternehmer, Entscheider und Fachleute aus den kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. Andererseits möchten wir die interessierte Öffentlichkeit erreichen, da die 4. industrielle Revolution wie Industrie 4.0 auch genannt wird branchenübergreifend unser Leben und Arbeiten verändern wird.

Für alle, die es noch nicht getan haben, heißt es: Schnell noch anmelden und mitdiskutieren.

Hier geht es zur Anmeldung:

https://mooc.house/courses/industrie40-2016

========================================================================

Java-Workshop: Einführung in die Testgetriebene Entwicklung mit JUnit

Worum geht es?
In diesem Kurs steht das automatisierte Testen im Mittelpunkt. Warum ist Testen so wichtig? Wird es unterlassen, kann es schnell passieren, dass sich unzufriedene Software-Nutzer bei den Programmierern melden. Um das zu vermeiden, lernen die Kursteilnehmer, wie sie mithilfe des Java-Frameworks JUnit wiederholbare Tests für ihre Programme selber schreiben können. Der Kurs bietet eine Reihe an praktischen Aufgaben, die in CodeOcean, einer am HPI entwickelten Programmierplattform, und in Eclipse durchgeführt werden. Bei erfolgreicher Teilnahme an der Abschlussprüfung gibt es zudem die Möglichkeit, ein Zertifikat des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts zu erhalten.

An wen richtet sich der Kurs?
Der Kurs richtet sich an alle, die Spaß haben am Programmieren und bereits über erste Erfahrungen in der Objektorientierten Programmierung in Java und der Eclipse IDE verfügen. Der Kurs "Java für Einsteiger" sowie der "Workshop Einführung in eine Java- Programmierumgebung (IDE)", stehen im openHPI-Archiv zur Auffrischung der Java Grundkenntnisse zur Verfügung.

Interessenten können sich hier anmelden:

https://open.hpi.de/courses/javawork2016

Die beiden Dozenten freuen sich auf einen interessanten Austausch. Gestalten Sie den Kurs selbst mit, indem Sie Ihre Fragen und Ideen zum Thema "Software testen" einbringen.

Wir freuen uns auf Sie!

Viele Grüße und ein schönes Wochenende wünscht
das openHPI-Team

Pünktlich zur Hannovermesse, am 25. April, startet das HPI in Kooperation mit der Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech) den 5-wöchigen Onlinekurs "Hands-on Industrie 4.0". Dieses kostenlose Angebot richtet sich an die interessierte Öffentlichkeit, insbesondere aber an KMUs, die durch die digitale Revolution vor neuen Herausforderungen stehen. Mehr als 40 namhafte Referenten aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Gewerkschaft werden sich in kurzen Videobeiträgen mit Fragen zum Thema Industrie 4.0 auseinandersetzen, Anwendungsbeispiele zeigen und damit hoffentlich auch für Sie wertvolle Tipps bereithalten, wie Industrie 4.0 erfolgreich umgesetzt werden kann. Hier geht es zur Anmeldung.

Zum Aufbau des Kurses

Der Kurs ist in 5 Themenwochen gegliedert, die jeweils von einem "Themenpaten" gemanagt werden. Unter der Leitung von Prof. Reiner Anderl von der TU Darmstadt wird in Woche 1 die "Vision Industrie 4.0" vorgestellt, um dem Schlagwort, das zur Zeit für viel mediale Aufmerksamkeit sorgt, etwas mehr Kontur zu verleihen. Dr. Peter Weckesser von SIEMENS wird in dieser Woche ebenso sprechen wie Prof. Dieter Spath von der Wittenstein AG uvm.

In Woche 2 stehen die "Technologischen Grundlagen" im Mittelpunkt. Technische Systeme werden intelligent, man spricht auch von Cyber-Physical Systems. Themenpate Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster vom Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) führt in die Woche ein, in der u.a. Bernd Leukert von SAP und Heinrich Munz von KUKA Roboter zu Wort kommen werden.

Industrie 4.0 bedeutet in vielen Bereichen eine Verschiebung von Aufgabenschwerpunkten, einen Wandel der Arbeit. Wie sich Unternehmen und Mitarbeiter auf diese Situation optimal vorbereiten, was das für das Thema Weiterbildung bedeutet uvm., darum geht es in Woche 3. Prof. Arnold Picot von der LMU München ist für diesen Bereich verantwortlich und hat sich als weitere Experten u.a. Constanze Kurz von der IG Metall, Dr. Uwe Schirmer von Bosch und Klaus Herrmann von Festo Lernzentrum ins Team geholt.

Im Spezial-Know-how liegt der USP vieler Unternehmen. Dieses Wissen in der Cloud zu speichern erscheint daher hochriskant. "Sicherheit" ist grundlegend, damit Industrie 4.0 gelingen kann. Woche 4 ist daher diesem zentralen Aspekt gewidmet, für den Prof. Christoph Meinel vom Hasso-Plattner-Institut die Themenpatenschaft übernommen hat. Hören Sie unter anderem, was Prof. Claudia Eckert vom Fraunhofer AISEC und Wolf-Rüdiger Moritz, Sicherheitschef von Infineon, raten.

Industrie 4.0 systematisch umsetzen - aber wie? Das ist die große Frage, die in Woche 5 besprochen werden soll, wenn es ganz konkret um die Einführung im Betrieb geht. Themenpate Prof. Günther Schuh von der RWTH Aachen wird in die Woche einführen und hat sich Experten wie Franz Gruber von FORCAM und Dr. Christian Mosch vom VDMA für die weitere Vertiefung des Themas hinzugeholt.

Kurze Überblickvideos zu den einzelnen eben genannten Kapiteln des Kurses haben wir auf unserem YouTube-Channel für Sie zusammengestellt. Wir möchten Sie nun herzlich dazu einladen, sich für den Kurs einzuschreiben. Diskutieren Sie dieses hochaktuelle Thema mit uns im kurseigenen Forum und tauschen Sie sich mit uns und untereinander zu Best Practises aus. Wir freuen uns auf Sie!

Viele Grüße,
Ihr mooc.HOUSE-Team

Gestern ging in Hannover die CeBIT zu Ende. Das Team von openHPI und mooc.HOUSE blickt auf 5 erfolgreiche Tage zurück. Besucher konnten an unserem Stand u.a. das tele-TASK-Aufnahmesystem testen, mit dem all unsere Videos erstellt werden. In kurzen Videoclips erzählen Gäste des HPI-Stands, aber auch HPI-Mitarbeiter von ihren Messeerlebnissen. Die 5 originellsten Aufnahmen wurden mit Raspberry Pis belohnt. Hier finden Sie die entstandenen Kurzvideos: https://mooc.house/courses/cebit2016. Um die Beiträge sehen zu können, müssen Sie sich kurz mit E-Mail-Adresse und Nutzername auf mooc.HOUSE registrieren und für den CeBIT-Kurs anmelden.

Das Hasso-Plattner-Institut veranstaltet am 25.02.2016 zum zweiten Mal in Folge eine Industrie 4.0-Konferenz, in der hochkarätige Vertreter aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Verbänden und Forschung gemeinsam einen Tag lang die wichtigs-ten Trends, Erkenntnisse und Visionen zum Thema Industrie 4.0 austauschen. Die Konferenz bildet einen idealen Ausgangspunkt für den Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) „Hands on Industrie 4.0“, einer Kooperation des HPI und der Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech), der Ende April startet. Genau wie der Onlinekurs zeigt die Konferenz verschiedene Facetten der Thematik auf wie z.B. Technologien, Sicherheit, Data Analytics und Marktpenetration. Die Teilnahme an der Konferenz kostet 75 Euro. Eine Anmeldung ist über das Online-Anmeldeformular auf der Veranstaltungshomepage möglich.

Did you know that design can improve the adoption of your software application? By applying a few tangible techniques, you can create a delightful experience for your users and incorporate good design into your software – we call it design-led development.
You don’t have to be a designer to embrace design as part of your everyday work. How? Check out our new online learning course: Software Design for Non-designers: How to make user experience a part of product quality.
Leading experts in the field of design-led software development including Scott Klemmer, Professor of Design at UCSD & Stanford and Sam Yen, Chief Design Officer at SAP, share their ideas and experiences in the 6-week course. By watching their lectures, along with examples from business applications, you will understand how you can apply design successfully within the context of software development. We’ll offer you a set of challenges to practice what you learned each week. You will earn points towards a course completion certification.

Ready to start? Sign up at mooc.house and start learning on November 3rd 2015. We look forward to seeing you in class!

Warm regards,
The SAP Global Design for Teaching Team

On our partnering MOOC platform openHPI a new course will be starting on Monday.

The course is held by Prof. Christoph Meinel and his team, who are also the makers of openHPI and mooc.house. We thought it might be interesting for you as well.

Hear it in their own words:
WWW, the world wide web or shortly the Web - really nothing more than an information service on the Internet – has changed our world by creating a whole new digital world that is closely intertwined with our real world, making reality what was previously unimaginable: communication across the world in seconds, watching movies on a smartphone, playing games or looking at photos with remote partners in distant continents, shopping or banking from your couch… In our MOOC we introduce and discuss the underlying web technologies. We start off by introducing the basic technologies of the Web characterized by keywords like URI, HTTP, HTML, CSS and XML. Later we discuss client-side and server-side web programming and have a closer look on JavaScript, web frameworks, libraries and architectural principles. Then we focus on web applications, such as web services and search engines. During the course you are invited also to solve some practical tasks. But don't worry, we will get to that together.

The course will start on June, 01, 2015. It will be held by Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel and his teaching team consisting of members of his chair for Internet technologies and systems at HPI.

We hope to see you soon in the course. You can sign up at https://open.hpi.de/courses/webtech2015.

Your mooc.house Team