Updated Guidelines for External Listing of MOOC Courses
UC San Diego remains committed to developing and deploying novel tools and platforms for reaching learners and delivering our educational offerings. After considering valuable feedback from faculty, we recognize that in some cases partnering with external platforms can better help us achieve this mission than using an internal solution. While UC San Diego Online and Canvas will remain our preferred and default distribution platforms for online courses per the July 2019 guidelines, we have created an exemption process to allow faculty to partner with other platforms (including edX and Coursera) under specific circumstances. These exemptions are aimed at ensuring that our faculty and academic units can develop courses with external collaborators, meet external funding agency requirements and outreach goals, and effectively market to new audiences.
These guidelines pertain to all newly created, UC San Diego sponsored and distributed online courses, offered by an external online course provider (such as Coursera or edX). The July 2019 guidelines required that all newly developed UC San Diego online courses and programs be hosted exclusively on Open edX (UC San Diego Online) or Canvas. The July 2019 guidelines also specified that existing courses could remain on edX and Coursera, but no new courses could be added to either platform.
The updated guidelines allow course creators to submit a request (via a form on the Digital Learning website) to develop MOOC(s) to be listed with an external course provider under limited circumstances, as an exemption to the July 2019 guidelines. Requests to develop MOOC(s) according to the new guidelines will be reviewed by the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Educational Innovation (AVC-EI). The same process can be used to update or refresh existing courses on these platforms.
Questions regarding the updated guidelines and review process may be addressed to the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Educational Innovation at ei@ucsd.edu.
Elizabeth H. Simmons Executive Vice Chancellor
University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093