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Potsdam. With more than 6.200 international participants enrolled, Prof. Hasso Plattner’s fourth, free openHPI course on the technology of high speed database technology begins on Monday at https://open.hpi.de. Plattner is co-founder and Supervisory Board Chairman of the software giant SAP and benefactor of HPI. His current Massive Open Online Course“(MOOC) is entitled "In-Memory Data Management." Here, every participant has the opportunity to become familiar with the lightning fast and flexible analysis of huge amounts of data, which in the past took hours or even days to complete.
Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) began the scientific research and development of the technology in 2006. All who are interested can still register for the six-week, free course, in English, at https://open.hpi.de/courses/imdb2015.
In the course, Plattner teaches the basic concepts and construction principles of the in-memory database technology. Participants will become familiar with the differences and advantages of column-oriented processing in the main-memory of high-performance, multi-core computers in contrast to row-oriented disk storage. Moreover, the course targets the impact of future enterprise applications and their development.
“Since the fall of 20012, the subject matter has been met with keen interest by nearly 40,000 openHPI users. Many want to know more about in-memory database technology,” said the HPI benefactor. Over 5,600 have successfully completed the course and received a certificate. “The high level of participation, and especially the interaction among students, confirms that massive open online courses are groundbreaking in the field of education,” Plattner said. The interactive learning offer that integrates a lively knowledge exchange on a social platform has been enthusiastically received. This is proven by that fact that HPI’s learning platform has earned a place among the ten finalists for the audience award in the innovation campaign “Germany—Land of Ideas.”
Plattner‘s latest online course is an updated and enhanced version of the previous three offers. The course contains over 30 learning videos by Platter and his team, comprehensive reading material for a deepening of the material, online tests for self-monitoring progress, homework and an online final test.
openHPI: Modeled on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
Participation in the open online courses on information technology is completely free of charge at openHPI – without any admission requirements. As so-called Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), the courses are embedded in an interactive learning network. This means that every participant is able to engage in content-related exchange with the professors, their research assistants and other users.
HPI’s Internet learning platform offers five, free open-access online courses per year to a large number of participants. In the meantime, approximately 97,000 interested online learners from over 150 countries have registered at open.HPI. The platform is unique worldwide with its focus on information technology and computer science as well as the fact that its course are taught in German, English and Chinese (www.openhpi.cn). Seventeen open.HPI courses are already available for use in the archive mode. The platform follows in the footsteps of “massive open online courses,” offered since 2011, first at Stanford University and then at other elite universities in the United States.
In contrast to “traditional“ lecture portals, courses at openHPI follow a fixed six-week syllabus with a defined set of educational content, such as instructional videos, texts, self-tests, regular homework and exam questions. These offerings are integrated into a social platform where participants have the opportunity to interact with instructors and fellow learners by getting answers to questions and discussing topics in depth. The so-called peer assessment is a new aspect of the program. Learners evaluate the solutions of other anonymous course participants and give feedback, based on specific criteria. Furthermore, there is a “quiz recap” for participants who would like to practice the entire course contents by way of randomly displayed self-test questions. Suggestions are also given on targeted learning videos to deepen knowledge of the material.
Hasso Plattner Institute at a Glance
The Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering GmbH (https://hpi.de) at the University of Potsdam is Germany’s university excellence center for IT-Systems Engineering. HPI is the only university institution in Germany offering the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in “IT-Systems Engineering” – a practical and engineering-oriented alternative to conventional computer science studies. Current enrollment is at approximately 480 students. The HPI School of Design Thinking is Europe’s first innovation school for university students. It is based on the Stanford model of the d.school and offers 240 places yearly for a supplementary study. There are a total of twelve HPI professors and over 50 guest professors, lecturers and contracted teachers at the Institute. HPI carries out research noted for its high standard of excellence in its ten IT topic areas. Research work is also conducted at the Potsdam HPI Research School for PhD candidates as well as at its branches in Cape Town, Haifa and Nanjing. HPI teaching and research focuses on the foundation and application of large-scale, highly complex and distributed IT systems. The development and exploration of user-driven innovations for all sectors of life is an additional area of importance. HPI always earns the highest positions in the CHE university ranking.
https://open.hpi.de/courses/imdb2015 - Enrolement for the new Hasso Plattner online course on In-Memory Data Management
https://hpi.de - Website of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam (HPI)
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