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Editorial:

Welcome to the 5th edition of inside_ON-COURSE.
This month we present the first statistics of Short courses (CPD) which comply with our IMI Quality Criteria → statistics. In the Q&A section we give a short description of on-course interactive search and additionally an example of search with added value. The next generation on-course: what is it about? Curios? Become an on-course® reader and not just a web scanner → analytics, continue sharing your on-course® experience to social networking sites → share.
On the right side of this page you will find quick links to our sections. Expand all articles (+) and navigate through the sections (A-H). All Graphs can be used for your next on-course® presentation. Please enjoy.

Table of Contents

statistics
analytics
app for mobile phones
questions and answers
all graphs
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Editorial office:

Tony Payton (University of Manchester) UK
Pavel Dallakian (Medical University of Vienna) Austria

statistics

ON-COURSE_stats > no. of entered courses by course type

Month/Year	Total Courses	Comments
Nov/2011	2030
Dec/2011	2269	small launch
Jan/2012	2327
Feb/2012	2948	official launch
Mar/2012	3371	google analytics
Apr/2012	3639
May/2012	3786
Jun/2012	3953	promotion campaign
Jul/2012	4128
Aug/2012	4324
Sep/2012	4573
Oct/2012	4655	development phase 3

Total courses entered during the last twelve months (Nov 2011 - Oct 2012).

ON-COURSE_stats > overview


All courses	15th October 2012: 4655
Course type	Masters: 2246	[1849^a+397^b]	PhD: 934	CPD^c: 1475
Status	Published: 4246	Not published: 98	Archived: 289	Other: 5
Language	English: 3650	French: 382	German: 160	Other: 463
Course schedule	Full time: 3822	Part time: 1145	On the job: 29	Modules: 262
Learning context	F2F^d: 3302	DL^e: 267	BL^f: 131
Legends: ^a Masters - taught; ^b Masters - research programme; ^c Continuing Professional Development ^d Face-to-Face; ^e Distance Learning; ^f Blended Learning (F2F+DL);

Compact but still very informative overview graph - October 2012.

EUROPEAN_UNIVERSITIES > Genetics and genomics courses

Course name	Type	Provider\|World ranking 2012 Life Sciences & Medicine
PhD, Genetics	PhD	University of Cambridge	2
Evolutionary Genetics	PhD	Uppsala University	56
Clinical Genetics 3, PhD	PhD	Leiden University	80
Master Genetics	Masters	Paris Descartes University	146
Complex Disease Genetics for Clinicians	Short courses (CPD)	Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses	»
Genetic Engineering	Short courses (CPD)	Denis Diderot University- Paris 7	»
MSc Biomedical Informatics	Masters	Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences	»
Masters degree Genetics	Masters	Sofia University	»

Find more courses at on-course®

Genetics and genomics courses. on-course® database contains about 991 courses for this scientific area:

ON-COURSE_CPD > quality criteria

Total number of Short courses (CPD) as of 15th October 2012	1475
#	Quality criterion (QC)	no. of courses that comply with QC	%
QC1	University accreditation OR a system for approving, monitoring and reviewing the training offered	342	23%
QC2	Quality assurance of teaching staff	420	28%
QC3	Regular review of the QA/QC process and demonstration that the training is further developed in light of this review	377	26%
QC4	Defined and transparent admission criteria	446	30%
QC5	A predefined set of teaching objectives, leading to defined learning outcomes	490	33%
QC6	The facilities, infrastructure, leadership and competences available for the support of student learning	410	28%
QC7	Assessment of the students' achievement in accordance with the agreed learning outcomes of the training offered	317	21%
QC8	A system for collecting, assessing and addressing feedback from learners, teachers, technical / administrative staff and programme / course / module managers	361	24%
QC9	Availability of appropriate and regularly reviewed reference material (e.g. published articles, links, book chapters, scripts, etc.)	455	31%

Criteria for evaluating the quality of Short courses (CPD).

analytics

ON-COURSE_analytics > visitors overview

	All Visits	New Visitors	Returning Visitors
Visits	12,136	8,642	3,494
Unique Visitors	8,639	8,638	932
Pages/Visit	5.09	3.86	8.11
Avg. Visit Duration	00:04:34	00:02:25	00:09:52
Bounce Rate	53.37%	60.16%	36.58%

Visits, unique visitors, average visit duration, and bounce rate since 1 March 2012.

ON-COURSE_long-term analytics

Long-term analytics, March - September 2012.

ON-COURSE_analytics > bounce rate

Are we on-course® readers or on-course® scanners ?

app for mobile phones

ON-COURSE_app > upGREATed & up-2-date

on-course® App! Ready for new iOS and new Android OS!

questions & answers

ON-COURSE_interactive search & navigation

on-course® interactive search and navigation

ON-COURSE_navigation with added value

How scientific area Genetics and genomics is related to therapeutic area Paediatrics ?

GENETICS and GENOMICS > useful links

Genetics and genomics → useful links

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Let's start thinking about on-course 2.0

web 2.0 tools > what is it about?
web 2.0 is a concept that takes the network as a platform for information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the Internet or World Wide Web. → wikipedia.org
web 2.0 is about revolutionary new ways of creating, collaborating, editing and sharing user-generated content online. It's also about ease of use. There's no need to download, and teachers and students can master many of these tools in minutes. Technology has never been easier or more accessible to all. → discoveryeducation.com
useful web 2.0 tools: design; presentation; social; entertainment; website creation; collaboration; animation; miscellaneous → wiki.elon.edu
A literature review of the use of Web 2.0 tools in Higher Education [pdf] → heacademy.ac.uk
100 best web 2.0 classroom tools. → edudemic.com
50 web 2.0 tools students want to use. → students.halldale.org
web 3.0 - most important features: semantic web and personalization. → wikipedia.org
semantic web - web of documents, web of data, linked data, vocabularies, queries. → w3c.org
W3C personalization roadmap. → w3c.org
start a blog or build a website. → wordpress.com
classroom tools, professional development, student resources. → google.com
web 2.0: objectives, hardware, software, cloud technologies, blogs, wikis, media sharing websites, social networking websites. → wikiversity.org

The best web 2.0 tools for the next generation on-course®

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