Online Platform Courses
Our MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) program, which aims to foster a vision of lifelong development and learning and to support you in current areas in which you wish to improve yourself, is ongoing. Important information regarding the courses you will take through MOOC platforms and details on how to enroll in and complete these courses are provided below.
During your undergraduate education, you are required to complete at least one course from edX, Coursera, or other approved Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms. The total MOOC course load must be at least 4 ECTS and must not exceed 12 ECTS. The courses must be approved by the relevant departmental MOOC coordinators. For the Department of Business Administration, the MOOC coordinator is Dr. Z. Rüya Yüksel (yukselzeh@mef.edu.tr).
In order for a course to be considered “passed,” the content interaction rate for the Personalized Learning Experience (PLE) courses must be at least 70%.
In accordance with the decision of the University Senate, in order to receive a “passed” grade for the PLE course, students must obtain certificates for all MOOC courses they complete and submit the following to the MOOC coordinator: the certificates, the syllabus, a learning report, and a 3–5-minute video presentation for each MOOC in which the student explains the main idea of the course and what they have learned.
Only courses for which you can obtain a certificate can be recorded on your transcript. Reports for courses without certificates will not be accepted.
Only elective courses may be completed through MOOC platforms.
Double-major (ÇAP) students may take MOOC courses.
Minor (Yandal) students may not take MOOC courses.
Unless the course is specifically a foreign language learning course, the language of instruction must be English. Accordingly, your reports and video presentations must also be prepared in English.
The courses may be at either the undergraduate or graduate level.
MOOC courses cannot be used for academic achievement scholarships.
MOOC courses are evaluated on a “pass” or “fail” basis.
You must obtain approval from your coordinator(s) before starting any courses. After receiving approval, changes may only be made with the knowledge and approval of your coordinator(s).
To ensure that the courses you complete can be recorded on your transcript at the end of the semester, please follow the steps below:
It is important that you enter the information regarding the courses you plan to take—including the course title, platform, course link, duration, and the elective course slot for which you intend to receive credit—into the Google Drive document that will be shared with you. Please follow the sample format provided at the beginning of the document without changing it and continue the table properly in order to avoid possible errors.
Please access the document from a computer rather than a mobile device. You are kindly requested to enter information only in your own row and not to modify any information belonging to other students.
The selected courses will be combined and transferred to your transcript as long as they total a minimum of 4 ECTS. Therefore, you should select courses that add up to at least 4 ECTS in total. In general, a course consisting of approximately 25–30 hours of study is equivalent to 1 ECTS. Therefore, 4 ECTS corresponds to a minimum of approximately 100 hours of coursework.
In order to receive credit for the courses you have completed, you must submit all of the documents listed below to the Online Course Coordinator, Dr. Z. Rüya Yüksel (yukselzeh@mef.edu.tr), by the specified deadline for evaluation:
Your certificate
An English report containing your reflections on the course, including what the course has contributed to you and what you have learned
A course content file (syllabus) in PDF format, consisting of screenshots showing the scope and content of the course. Your name must also be visible in the screenshots.
A 3–5-minute video presentation in English explaining the learning outcomes and what you have learned from the course
Please create a separate folder for each course containing all of the relevant documents, and share the folders via Google Drive using the following naming format: Last Name, First Name – Dept or Non-dept
Please submit the documents exactly as requested and in the specified format.