KAIST-MOOCs
KAIST-MOOCs offers high-quality open online courses through four different platforms.
KAIST-MOOCs Characteristics and Reasons for Use
What is a 'MOOC' ?
- A Massive Open Online Course(MOOC) is an online class with no limit on the number of participants
- Learning activities that enhance online interaction between instructors and learnints, as well as among learners themselves
- MOOCs offer free access to lectures from prestigious universities worldwide, allowing students to learn anytime and anywhere(with certificate available)
Why choose KAIST-MOOCs service ?
- Self-directed learning is possible through microlearning modules of KAIST’s excellent lectures
- Interactive learning is enhanced by activities such as quizzes and feedback provided by KAIST professor.
Key platforms
- KAIST's self-developed open knowledge donation channel for the public (courses released in 2016)
- Starting with five courses in 2016, we have now developed and operate over 70 courses
- Online open lecture service in science and technology jointly offered by four science and technology institutes—KAIST, GIST, DGIST, and UNIST—along with POSTECH and UST
- In 2017, the STAR-MOOC Working Group was formed, leading to the platform launch in 2018 (KAIST participated in STAR-MOOC as KOOC and the leader of STAR-MOOC Working Group)
- First domestic partnership agreement World's largest online open course (course launched in 2014)
- First domestic agreement with Coursera, the world's largest MOOC consortium (October 2013)
