1. Integrating MOOCs in University Curriculum: HSE University Experience
Evgeniya Kulik,
PhD, Director of eLearning Office at HSE University
Ksenia Kidimova,
PhD, Deputy Director of eLearning Office at HSE
Higher School of Economics , Moscow, 2017

2. National Research University Higher School of Economics
Founded in 1992
> Students
4 Campuses: Moscow, St.Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Perm
10 Academic Departments (MegaSchools)
80 MOOCs
1 million enrollments on HSE online courses on Coursera
students on National Platform of Open Education
TOP-10 on Coursera by number of courses

3. HSE University on Coursera and Open Education Platform
Coursera since 2014
OpenEducation since 2015
53 courses (19 in Eng)
enrollments
195 countries
3 (+2new) specializations
30% first learned about HSE
27 courses
enrollments
18 countries
30% HEI lectures
6 HSE courses in TOP-10
we develop:
Management solutions
Organizational and economic models
Learning analytics

4. Why? How? Sharing Experience

5. Focus on Online Education
HSE University is developing online projects to ensure:
Variability and the highest quality of teaching
HSE’s social responsibility as a center of high quality education
Uniform standards of teaching in 4 HSE campuses
Promotion among the global academic community

6. High quality Variability
Why?
Improving the quality of educational programs and reducing the cost of their implementation
High quality Variability
Reasonable expenses
Identifying the best possible organizational and economic formats for incorporating online courses into a standard academic curriculum and adding them to HSE’s internal bylaws
Academic Council of each educational program is responsible for all aspects of its quality

7. The Goals of Integrating MOOCs into HSE Curriculum
improve the quality of our educational programs
by including online-courses
achieve specific tasks with limited resources
1) Non-HSE MOOCs (unique content):
a course, non-core for HSE, by a leading university
specialized course in English
a niche course delivered by a renowned professor
2) HSE MOOCs:
variability and better quality of education on campus
optimization of logistics, topical issue for universities with a disperse campus
optimal use of resources

8. How We Integrate MOOCs into Curricula?
Request of a student
Regulations on academic mobility of students is the basis for credit transfer:
The Student's Application
Certificate on successful completion of the course
Decision of the academic administration
"White list“
Since 2016/17 online courses have become a mandatory element for all educational programs (decision of HSE Academic Council)
MOOCs lists are prepared and opened to access by the academic supervisor
the course certificate is guaranteed to be credited / the course is integrated in blended format (with offline exam, seminars etc.)
Mechanisms of including MOOCs:

9. total number of MOOCs in curricula
350+
MOOCs are included into the educational plans of HSE students in 2016/17
different MOOCs included in HSE students’ individual curricula 57
of 70 HSE online courses included in HSE students’ curricula
total number
of students
total number of MOOCs in curricula
207
Educational Programs

10. 350+
MOOCs are included into the educational plans of HSE students in 2016/17
different MOOCs included in HSE students’ individual curricula 57
of 80 HSE online courses included in HSE students’ curricula
We analyse:
Types of courses offered using MOOCs
Whether the strategy of schools in the selection of the MOOC type is related to the field of study
3) Students’ difficulties and satisfaction rate

11. How HSE University Integrates MOOCs: Internal Data
Monitoring surveys organized by HSE Center for Internal Monitoring
Series of in-depth interviews with staff and students (Academic Supervisors, Program Coordinators and Curricula Managers, Deans and Vice-deans, Students, Student council)
Strategic session with Academic Supervisors, aimed at:
analyzing the intermediate results,
discussing bottlenecks
finding optimal solutions and recommendations

12. What Types of Courses Are Offered to Students in the Format of MOOC
Flexible approach
Maximize the educational experience of students
> 60% of educational programs expanded the list of existing elective courses
Enhance professional diversity
Adaptive
Elective
Compulsory

13. Field of Study vs. MOOC Type
Some general patterns:
Humanities are more likely to integrate MOOCs in blended format, which allows a traditional offline exam
Computer science programs used MOOCs to go deeper in some specific topics or tools, online programming assessments were fairly reliable verifying students' knowledge and skills
Programs taught in English, as well as programs in the field of international relations, international business and a some others, logically focused their attention on the choice of English-language courses

14. eSTARS.hse.ru/en/ The Main Challenges for Successful Use of MOOCs
No set criteria for assessing the quality of MOOCs on University level
A unified University system for selecting MOOCs and assessing the quality of external MOOCs selected for integration in university curriculum
Reliability of exams and other assessments on MOOCs platforms
Psychometrics and proctoring
eSTARS.hse.ru/en/

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