Award for online course

The past few months have expanded the general vocabulary in many areas - for example, who had heard of MOOCs before Corona? MOOC - that is the abbreviation for Massive Open Online Course, i.e. open online learning opportunities without access or admission restrictions.

"We have been working with MOOCS as part of the Global Labour University for quite a few years now in order to enable as many people as possible to participate in high-quality teaching, regardless of their home country or formal education," says Prof. Christoph Scherrer, who heads the Globalization & Policy department at the University of Kassel and is director of the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD).

The Global Labour University (GLU) is a network of trade unions, universities, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the ILO (International Labor Organization of the United Nations). It offers master's degree programs in five different countries on trade unions, sustainable development, social justice, international labor standards, multinational corporations, economic policy, and global institutions, and promotes research collaboration on global labor issues.

One of GLU's most recent online courses has now been selected as Course of the Month by the major MOOC platform "iversity." "The topic of this online course is a discussion on how we can use the Corona Crisis to make issues such as justice, sustainability and democratic participation more broadly relevant in society," says Prof. Scherrer.

Along with the other organizers of the course, he is pleased to receive the award: "The more people who hear about GLU and take the chance to participate in one of our courses, the better it is for democratic discourse."