UTokyo Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

The University of Tokyo was the first Japanese university to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on both Coursera and edX. Since 2013, UTokyo MOOC has launched 22 courses (10 on Coursera and 12 on edX). More than 680,000 students from over 201 countries have enrolled in these courses, and more than 40,000 students have completed them.

MOOCs are offered on a variety of platforms by world-class universities and institutions. In addition to self-improvement, learners use MOOCs to improve their professional skills. MOOCs’ individually validated certificates can help learners advance in their workplace and make career changes.

• Fujimoto, T., Takahama, A., Ara, Y., Isshiki, Y., Nakaya, T., Yamauchi, Y. (2017) Building an Online Community for International Students to Support Studying Abroad with a MOOC. International Council for Educational Media (ICEM 2017), Naples, Italy.
• Ara, Y., Fujimoto, T., Isshiki, Y., Yamauchi, Y. (2017). An analysis of the change of learning activity on dual track MOOC. The 33rd Annual Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology, 1005-1006: Shimane University.
• Fujimoto, T., Isshiki, Y., Ara, Y., Yamauchi, Y., Miyagawa, S., and Yoshimi, S. (2015) Developing the MOOC Visualizing Postwar Tokyo with inter-organizational collaboration. Learning With MOOCs Workshop 2015 (LWMOOCs II). Columbia University, NY, USA.
• Fujimoto, T., Ara, Y., Isshiki, Y., Yamauchi, Y. (2015) The Status of Globalization with Providing Massive Open Online Courses in Higher Education. The 31st Annual Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology, 89-90: The University of Electro- Communications.
• Ara,Y., Fujimoto,T., Isshiki,Y., Yamauchi, Y. (2015) A proposal of MOOC evaluation criteria considering course design and learners’ intention. The 31st Annual Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology, 89-90: The University of Electro- Communications.
• Ara,Y., Fujimoto,T., Isshiki,Y., Yamauchi, Y.(2014)The results and analysis of UTokyo’s MOOC in 2013. Journal of Information Studies, The University of Tokyo. 86, 83-100. (PDF) http://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/manage/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/86_5.pdf(Japanese)