The service provides online courses open to the general public, through the University of Crete open academic courses platform, based on Moodle. It was developed in the project “Open Academic Courses at the University of Crete” of the Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning”, completed in 2015.
“Open” means free access for everyone to all of the educational material: notes, slides or recorded lectures. The courses do not lead to a degree or certificate, but enrich and refresh knowledge and spread it to the general public.
Faculty members can create a new open course by submitting a request to the Helpdesk (helpdesk.ict.uoc.gr or helpdesk[AT]uoc.gr), stating the instructors, the course name and the Department or Programme it belongs to.