Check their courses, its worth your time! iversity.org is a MOOC provider based in Berlin. iversity works in collaboration with universities and professors to provide its MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Languages of the courses are available in English and German, with additional languages being added.
History[edit]
iversity was founded as a Learning Management System in 2008 by Jonas Liepmann and Hannes Klöpper, while they were students at Humboldt University. In 2011, iversity became a limited company and received EXIST funding for technology innovation by BMWi and the European Union. iversity became a specialized MOOC provider in 2012.[1] The current CEO is Marcus Riecke. Hannes Klöpper is the co-founder and Managing Director.[2] iversity officially launched on October 15, 2013 with over 100,000 users signed up to 24 MOOCs.[3]
MOOC Production Fellowship[edit]
iversity, in cooperation with the Donor’s Association for German Science, ran the MOOC Production Fellowship in 2013. €250,000 was set aside to fund the production of 10 MOOCs. Half of the funding was allocated for German language MOOC production.[4] as a result 250 professors applied and 100,000 votes from around the world.[5] The judging panel included, among others, Jorg Drager, Hamburg's Science Senator and member of Bertelsmann Foundation for Education,[6] Prof Jurgen Kluge, expert in innovation management, and Prof Jorn Loviscach, a lecturer in Mathematics at MOOC provider Udacity, and Christian Spannagelhaus, Math professor at Heidelberg Teachers College.
Courses[edit]
iversity has 24 MOOCs and is expanding continually. Professors and universities worldwide are open to working with iversity. Current partners include: KU Leuven, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, University of Florence, the University of Hamburg and the Pratt Institute in New York.
Courses on iversity include: DNA, Dark Matter, Medicine, storytelling, Internet Privacy, Web Engineering, Architecture, Math, and others.[7] The courses on iversity have short video lectures with assignments.
Course Structure[edit]
Courses are open and free to anyone. Course levels vary from introductory level to final year undergraduate level. Some courses may recommend previous knowledge on the subject.
Courses consist of Chapters, Units and Assessments. A MOOC will typically consist of 8 Chapters. One chapter will be released per week. Each chapter will contain 6-10 units. These units consist of 3–8 minutes long videos, that have interactive quizzes and homework. Depending on the instructor there may be a peer-to-peer review assessments and group projects. An exam will be held at the end of each course.
Discussion forums make up a large part of the course infrastructure, and is considered beneficial to the learning experience. Instructors and TAs moderate and guide these discussions and ensure quality control.[8]
ECTS Credits[edit]
ECTS credits can be obtained from participation in three iversity MOOCs.[9] The MOOCs can be taken remotely, and the final examination must be taken in each respective university campus for the credits to be awarded.[10] iversity is the first MOOCs provider to offer ECTS credits.
These courses are:
- "Algorithms and Data Structures" from University of Osnabrück
- "Fundamentals of Marketing" from Lübeck University of Applied Sciences
- "Introduction to Business Administration" from RWTH Aachen
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