A course concept will help you to answer questions like:

• What are the target groups?
• Which residential courses are involved and how?
• What does that mean for the course? Will the course be offered alternately to ETH students and international participants, or will there be an exchange between the two groups and will ETH students participate in the international MOOC?
• How can the target groups profit from each other?
• Which main topics will you present, and what are the learning goals?
• Which materials or course elements are already available, and which course contents do you still have to develop?
• How many videos do you want to produce? What kind of videos will that be?
• How many hours (total work load) will the course be?
• What kind of learning activities do you plan for each target group?
• On average, the workload per week is 2-4 hours. So how many weeks will the course be?
• We advise you to divide the course into parts of about 5 to 7 weeks maximum. So if you have 10 weeks of course material, we advise you to split it into two 5-week modules. A trailer video should be developed for each module.
• Is it an ETH course or is it a joint project? Who is involved, and how is the work load divided? Avoid dependencies where possible.
• … etc.

Standalone online courses or MOOCs tend to be between 6 and 8 weeks/ topics long. For each week or topic, you have to define learning materials and activities, e.g.:

In blended courses or hybrid MOOCs, the course concept is more complex, since you have to design learning activities that happen in-class as well as learning activities the learners have to do online.