As part of the FutureLearn platform Southampton University are offering a Web Science MOOC (Massively Open On-line Course). Watch a short intro by Lab Director Les Carr and WST board members Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt
Steffen Stabb asks the Web Science Community to vote for the production of a massive open on-line course (MOOC) on Web Science As part of spreading the gospel of Web Science, we are in a competition to spread it addressing students from all over the world through a MOOC – a massive open online course on Web Science with free content in English. We have submitted an application video and we now compete against more than 240 competitors for 10 MOOC Fellowships provided by Iversity and the Foundation for German Science whereby each fellowship provides funds to create a new MOOC about any academic topic. In order to make the first cut in the competition, we need 1 minute from *you*: Please login to https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/web-science – you can do so by using your facebook account or by creating a new account on that platform – and hit the green VOTE / ABSTIMMEN button. And of course, you do not have to vote for the “cat in the bag” (as we would say in German), but you can see our application video and our course concept on that very page. If possible: share this information with your students, colleagues, friends — the more who vote for us the more likely that MOOC on Web Science will happen. Please do it now! Thanks a lot! Steffen