CourseOn

Project description.

Recently the online learning factor increases disruptively. Thus education programs (master, baccalaureate, on a certain specialty) are less important than, their separate modules – online courses. Thus the quantity of offered courses from different providers increases rapidly.
Even with one provider we face several courses with the same title, as for example, Machine learning
There is a logical question how to choose a suitable course?
• how to get course information
• how to choose this or that course.



For this purpose we start the CourseOn project www.courseon.org .
CourseOn is the platform project for online courses (OC) search. Courses can be found by different features on the basis of the formative standard of the online courses description, developed by CourseOn. The presentation of online course as independent module of formal learning provider (universities, schools, etc.) is an important step to the networked education development in the form of cross-university training where programs – specializations can be found from different institutions (teachers).


Project goals
• To satisfy the increasing student’s demand to help the choice of online courses from different providers
• To help for course providers to promote their products

CourseOn objectives and tools
Online courses integrator - aggregator
Online courses classification
OC search engine
OC choice consultant
Personal learning path design


What CourseOn registration benefits
1) To Student.
Elective subscription on new online courses arising in online space of interested studies.
2) To providers.
Beside opportunity to offer own online courses, to get feedback from independent online courses assessment by partners, students, experts, employers, etc.
We advise providers at this stage to place mostly the best and representative courses that will allow to draw further attention to specialized courses.
3) To consultants and experts.
Opportunity to participate in expert online courses estimation both from the content relevance and completeness point of view, and from the tools, methods, design, etc. points of view. Therefore experts from different fields of knowledge and training are demanded.
4) To employers.
While at present the project is at the initial stage, it is difficult to offer the employer broad selection of students with suitable knowledge, skills and the abilities, passed through the courses recommended by CourseOn. However, it won't prevent the employer to act at this stage as the expert-consultant, and, probably, as provider of professional development courses from provider’s corporate university.