Online courses
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To make its courses more accessible to students who live far away or are busy during the day, UCLouvain uses e-learning in a variety of ways.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs)
The Louvain moocXperience is a project aimed at developing online courses open to everyone. The project explores new forms of online and on-campus teaching.
Among the first in Belgium to offer MOOCs, UCLouvain offers them as part of the international edX consortium.
MOOCs are fully online courses open to anyone, with no access requirements and free of charge (with the exception of certified courses leading to a qualification). Anyone interested can therefore discover new knowledge or update their existing knowledge via professors from prestigious universities. Faculties also use MOOCs to offer students a wider range of electives provided by other universities in Europe.
Through MOOCs, UCLouvain aims to explore new forms of learning, both online and in the classroom.
More information on UCLouvain MOOCs
Courses enhanced by e-learning
Professors use Moodle UCLouvain to offer enhanced ways of participating in classes:
- recorded lectures (podcasts);
- instructional videos;
- automatically marked practice exercises;
- self-assessments;
- discussion and Q&A forums;
- online monitoring of group work;
- online noticeboards, and more.
This range of tools encourages both independent work and interaction between students and teachers.
Online continuing education
Continuing education programmes for adults are increasingly making use of e-learning to offer courses that are partially or even entirely online, including the following:
- university certificate in geopolitical analysis of major powers;
- university certificate in international relations and conflict analysis;
- joint certificate in introduction to financial mathematics
Online master’s course
UCLouvain also offers the option of studying for a master’s degree through a hybrid programme (primarily online):