EOOC – Easy Open Online Courses: A Platform to Create and Run Open Online Courses

This article describes Easy Open Online Courses (EOOCs), a framework that supports generic online courses for students combined with an authoring tool for lecturers. The aim of our work is to provide a complete system supporting both the lecturer in providing an online course as well as the students using an online course in an interactive and motivating way. Setting up the system or adding a new course should require only little time and few resources. To achieve these goals, we have implemented a Web-based tool using common Web technologies like PHP, JavaScript and HTML. The content of the courses is stored in a MySQL database. A complete course with lecture recordings, online quizzes, animations, online tutorials, etc. produced with the EOOC framework is available and used by our students. A preliminary evaluation indicates that our EOOC course is well suited as a self-learning tool for