Online learning worldwide with MOOCs

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are interactive online courses that are accessible around the world and free of charge. The steadily growing offer of these courses has enriched teaching and learning in our University and gives the chance to an international and diverse audience.

Cost Accounting

Current: This Specializaton will help you to get insights of how to deal with the skills required in the Cost Accounting Sector like Profit Analysis, Corporate Accounting and many more. With the experts teaching this, the Specializaton takes you deeply and explains all the basics required in the areas of Product Costing, Profit & Loss Calculation and Decision Making.

Street Experiments for Sustainable and Resilient cities

Current: The "Street Experiments for Sustainable and Resilient cities" is a unique course which focuses on neighborhood livability by letting you design, implement and evaluate your own unique ideas for pubic space distribution.

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Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Professional Certificate

Current: In this program, you will first earn the TUM Yellow Belt by mastering the fundamentals of the Lean Six Sigma methodology, and then the Green Belt Certification by applying your knowledge in practice with a predefined project. Professional Certificate Program in edX

Producing MOOCs

Perfectly equipped: The university's media center allows teaching staff to produce high-quality MOOCs while receiving support throughout the process. Info & Support

Bronze Medal for Best Online Program 2021 at Wharton-QS @Reimagine Education Awards Conference

We are delighted to announce that the TUM Lean Six Sigma Green Belt program has won its 3rd award in 2021 alone!

The professional program we offer in cooperation with the #digitallearning platform @edX has been awarded the Bronze Medal for Best Online Program 2021 at the Wharton-QS @Reimagine Education Awards Conference . The panel of 300 independent judges from 45 countries, recognized the program among 1,100+ applications because of its global reach, accessibility, and initiative for the @United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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Coursera and edX supporting the LifeLong Learning experience

Future learners who want to explore the different offers, as the Coursera Partner Consortium Program or the edX Online Campus Essentials Program, have to be given access to the list of courses which are available for free.

What are the next steps?

Contact moocspam prevention@lll.tum.de with the number of access seats you would like for your project teams and/or your students. Please also include: Full name, TUM email address, matriculation number and name of the enrolled program at TUM (only for students).
You will receive an invitation to join the program by email.
After successful completion of the courses/programs you can also get the certificate of completion for free.

Is there a deadline?
Coursera’s initiative has no anticipated end date so far. On the other hand, edX’s offer will be available until June 30th 2024.

Thinking Six Sigma & Lean: Infineon Blended Belt Certification

Infineon and the Technical University of Munich have developed a unique blended Six Sigma and Lean training for Infineon Production sites worldwide. Infineon employees master Six Sigma and Lean theory with the TUM Massive Open Online Professional Program offered on the edX MOOC platform. Working at their own pace and independently, Infineon Green Belt candidates cover all phases of the process improvement Six Sigma DMAIC cycle and Lean Production online and are then prepared to start a Green Belt project on site. The program started in October 2020 and is now rolled out in 5 countries.

Honorable Mention on the 2021 International E-Learning Awards

Infineon Technologies and the Technical University of Munich have developed a unique blended Six Sigma and Lean training for Infineon Production sites worldwide. Infineon employees master Six Sigma and Lean theory with the TUM Massive Open Online Professional Program, Lean Six Sigma, offered on the edX MOOC platform. Today, our blended corporate program received a Honorable Mention Award in the Blended Learning category of the 2021 International E-Learning Awards, given by the International E-Learning Association (IELA)!

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Runner-Up Award 2021 der International E-Learning Association (IELA)

Our Lean Six Sigma MOOCs have received the third award, for the course: "Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate". We are very happy to receive this silver medal in the category: Blended Learning - Academic Division. For this Lean Six Sigma certificate we offer three paths: For corporate employees with the implementation of an individual business project, for students and job seekers with the implementation of our standard predefined pollution project. The third path is through our Go Green Belt Award, for which our certified Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belts can apply with an outstanding project idea on one of the 17 United Nations Sustainability Goals. This allows three Yellow Belts with the best project ideas each year to earn our Green Belt certificate at no cost. - All three paths are structured through learning materials, individual coaching, open lectures, and five reviews of the project documentation.

German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future

Language: English

The French and German Ministries for Research and Education via ANR (French National Research Agency) and DLR-PT (DLR Project Management Agency) announced on October 23rd, 2020 a Joint Call for Proposals on Artificial Intelligence dedicated to the funding of German-French Cooperation. The Academy wishes to encourage collaboration between academic and industrial experts in order to initiate highly promising AI research projects in the framework of this call.

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Please contact us if you would like to create a SPOC for use with your residential courses or just to explore the possibilities of online teaching.

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Discover Excellence in Engineering and the Natural Sciences - Made in Germany. Discover TU9!
First Session: October 20 - December 21, 2014
Language: English
Lecturers of TUM: Prof. Dr. Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Müller, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Utschick

The aim of the MOOC@TU9 continuation phase was the production of MOOC offerings within the thematic field of engineering sciences which were developed as well as produced cooperatively in collaboration of at least two TU9 facilities each, and afterwards could be used in all facilities. Aside from German- and English-speaking courses on communication acoustics, transport ecology, and contemporary urban planning, renowned professors of the areas of expertise presented open online courses on aircraft engines and on the development process of technical systems. After successful completion of the course a certificate of participation could be acquired. The courses were curricular embedded for a selection of degree programmes within the network, but students from outside the TU9 alliance and the interested public were addressed with the offer, too. Altogether more than 3000 people participated in the offered courses in winter semester 2016/2017, and profited from the bundled engineering know-how of the TU9. The project aimed at building up experiences collectively on the issue of MOOCs, and is to be understood as an instrument for an ongoing improvement and extension of the course offerings at TU9 universities. Also, after the end of the project the contents and courses are still available as far as possible, and will be organised again in summer semester 2017.

Courses:

Fundamentals of Communication Acoustics
Applications in Communication Acoustics
Flood Risk Management
Urbane Mobilität
MAKING CITY - Grundlagen des Zeitgenössischen Städtebaus
Methods and Tools in Engineering Design
Aircraft Engines

Sustaining a Culture of Excellence: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Land Management

Cheonjae Lee and Walter Timo de Vries

Sustainability 2019, 11(12), 3280

Abstract: Increasing globalization and the emergence of disruptive learning technologies have derived a pedagogical paradigm shift from the conventional on-campus higher education to the digital and online higher education. Massive open online courses (MOOCs), especially, are the most notable manifestation of educational transformation. We developed a MOOC entitled Introduction to Land Management (ILMx MOOC) for potential entrants to the land management domain, or for those who simply want to become aware of land-related challenges and brought together with thousands of participants worldwide with freely accessible course content and rooms for open discussion. Our experience with ILMx MOOC has accumulated new knowledge and insight across a broad range of questioning on how to design and develop alternative courseware and teach using digital learning technologies in land management. This paper examines an account of emerging patterns of demographics, geography, and course engagement throughout the ILMx MOOC. We found that the subject of land management in digital higher education affects gender gaps in enrolments. We also assume that the topic of land management has been globally recognized as an important nexus to guide professionals in international development studies and practices as well as sustainability research. However, new behavioral patterns of learners were also observed. They participated in the learning process very enthusiastically only during the first month of the course and this seems to be due to lack of motivation and interest to induce learners efficiently into the learning content. We believe that the culture of excellence in land management needs to be accompanied by engaged excellence and new forms of educational culture and work processes. This means that the high-quality and rigorous knowledge we produce and accumulate is coupled closely with new styles of educational development and delivery, new types of resources and hardware, and extensive engagement with countries, localities, people, and practices of those who handle land matters.

Computational Thinking as Springboard for Learning Object-Oriented Programming in an Interactive MOOC

Johannes Krugel and Peter Hubwieser

Published in: 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

Abstract: The prerequisite knowledge regarding Computer Science (CS) varies strongly among freshmen at university and it seems advisable to compensate for these differences before the first lecture starts. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) might represent a possible solution. We therefore designed and developed a MOOC (called “LOOP: Learning Object-Oriented Programming”) which provides a gentle introduction to computational thinking and object-oriented concepts before the programming part. In addition to the common quizzes, we developed various we-based interactive exercises to enable the learners to experiment and interact directly with the presented concepts. Furthermore, we implemented programming exercises with constructive feedback for the learners using a web-based integrated development environment and additionally an automatic grading system. The target group of the course are prospective students of science or engineering that are due to attend CS lessons in their first terms. The course was conducted as a prototype with a limited number of participants. In a concluding survey, the participants submitted textual feedback on the course; some of them proposed specific improvements for the employed interactive exercises. Yet, the overall feedback was encouragingly positive. In this paper, we describe the design and the development of the course, as well as our initial results.

TU9-MOOC Communication Acoustics: Erste Erfahrungen (pdf for download)

Sebastian Möller, et al.

Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2017: Plenarvortr. u. Fachbeitr. d. 43. Dtsch. Jahrestg. f. Akust. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA)DE-Berlin Seiten 1-4 ISBN 978-3-939296-12-6 DEGA 2017.

Einleitung: Zwischen den neun großen Technischen Universitäten in Deutschland werden derzeit eine Anzahl von Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) implementiert, mit deren Hilfe ein abgestimmtes und international sichtbares Lehrangebot geschaffen werden soll. Wie auf der DAGA 2016 berichtet [1], hatten sich vier dieser Technischen Universitäten unter Einbindung der Chalmers University of Technology aus einer Initiative im Hochschulbeirat der DEGA heraus zusammengetan, um einen solchen Online-Kurs zum Thema Kommunikationsakustik zu produzieren [2].

Der Kurs ist zum Wintersemester 2016/17 zunächst als interner Kurs der beteiligten Universitäten und seit Dezember 2016 auch als öffentlicher MOOC gestartet. Er wird komplett auf Englisch angeboten und richtet sich an Studierende zum Ende des Bachelor- und zu Beginn des Masterstudiums, sodass weitere Spezialveranstaltungen auf ihm aufbauen können. In diesem Beitrag werden neben einem kurzen Abriss über die Konzeption des Kurses insbesondere unsere Erfahrungen bei der Produktion der benötigten Lehrmaterialen, der Einbindung in die Kursplattform edX, der Vorbereitung zugehöriger Prüfungen und Zertifikate, sowie der Durchführung des ersten Semesters berichtet. Daraus wird eine Liste mit Optimierungspotenzial abgeleitet. Da der Kurs öffentlich verfügbar ist, wird abschließend diskutiert, wie andere Universitäten und Hochschulen das Angebot in ihrer Lehre nutzen können.

ArTEMiS - An Automatic Assessment Management System for Interactive Learning" (pdf for download)

Dr. Stephan Krusche und Andreas Seitz

Published in: SIGCSE '18 Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Abstract: The increasing number of students in computer science courses leads to high efforts in manual assessment of exercises. Existing assessment systems are not designed for exercises with immediate feedback in large classes. In this paper, we present an AuTomated assEssment Management System for interactive learning.

ArTEMiS assesses solutions to programming exercises automatically and provides instant feedback so that students can iteratively solve the exercise. It is open source and highly scalable based on version control, regression testing and continuous integration. ArTEMiS offers an online code editor with interactive exercise instructions, is programming language independent and applicable to a variety of computer science courses. By using it, students gain experiences in version control, dependency management and continuous integration.

We used ArTEMiS in 3 university and 1 online courses and report about our experiences. We figured out that ArTEMiS is suitable for beginners, helps students to realize their progress and to gradually improve their solutions. It reduces the effort of instructors and enhances the learning experience of students.

Interactive Learning – Increasing Student Participation through Shorter Exercise Cycles (pdf for download)

Stephan Krusche, Andreas Seitz, Jürgen Börstler and Bernd Bruegge

19th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE'17), pages 17-26. ACM. Geelong - Australia, January 2017

Abstract: In large classes, there is typically a clear separation between content delivery in lectures on the one hand and content deepening in practical exercises on the other hand. This temporal and spatial separation has several disadvantages. In particular, it separates students’ hearing about a new concept from being able to actually practice and apply it, which may decrease knowledge retention.

To closely integrate lectures and practical exercises, we propose an approach which we call interactive learning: it is based on active, computer based and experiential learning, includes immediate feedback and learning from the reflection on experience. It decreases the time between content delivery and content deepening to a few minutes and allows for flexible and more efficient learning. Shorter exercise cycles allow students to apply and practice multiple concepts per teaching unit directly after they first heard about them.

We applied interactive learning in two large software engineering classes with 300 students each and evaluated its use qualitatively and quantitatively. The students’ participation increases compared to traditional classes: until the end of the course, around 50% of the students attend class and participate in exercises. Our evaluations show that students’ learning experience and exam grades correlate with the increased participation. While educators need more time to prepare the class and the exercises, they need less time to review exercise submissions. The overall teaching effort for instructors and teaching assistants does not increase.

Increasing the Interactivity in Software Engineering MOOCs - A Case Study (Best Paper Nomination)

Stephan Krusche and Andreas Seitz

31st Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2019). Hawaii - USA, January 2019

Abstract: MOOCs differ from traditional university courses: instructors do not know the learners who have a diverse background and cannot talk to them in person due to the worldwide distribution. This has a decisive influence on the interactivity of teaching and the learning success in online courses. While typical online exercises such as multiple choice quizzes are interactive, they only stimulate basic cognitive skills and do not reflect software engineering working practices such as programming or testing. However, the application of knowledge in practical and realistic exercises is especially important in software engineering education.

In this paper, we present an approach to increase the interactivity in software engineering MOOCs. Our interactive learning approach focuses on a variety of practical and realistic exercises, such as analyzing, designing, modeling, programming, testing, and delivering software stimulating all cognitive skills. Semi-automatic feedback provides guidance and allows reflection on the learned theory. We applied this approach in the MOOC software engineering essentials SEECx on the edX platform. Since the beginning of the course, more than 15,000 learners from more than 160 countries have enrolled. We describe the design of the course and explain how its interactivity affects the learning success.

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Fundamentals of Communication Acoustics - English

Applications in Communication Acoustics - English

Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots

Communication Acoustics

Introduction to Computer Vision (in German)

Flood Risk Management

Introduction to Land Management

Make Your Own App

Quality Engineering and Management: Fundamentals of Six Sigma

Software Engineering Essentials

Probability, Risk, Reliability – an Introduction for Engineers (in German)

Web App Development with the Power of Node.js

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