Dear Smalltalkers! There is an initiative for funding the development of massive open online courses (moocs) by the "Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft"" (http://www.stifterverband.info/ueber_den_stifterverband/english/index.html). You can get information about a running competition (MOOC PRODUCTION FELLOWSHIP) here: https://moocfellowship.org. Following the link https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/objektorientierte-programmierung-von-... YOU CAN VOTE for the course offered by me resp. the NORDAKADEMIE (www.nordakademie.de). For voting you have to register by Facebook or email only. The MOOC we want to build will be based on a blended learning course we have been pursuing as a first year programming course under the headline "object oriented development of web applications" since a couple of years. During this class the students learn object oriented programming from the beginning using Smalltalk and Seaside. Since the material of our blended learning course is in German the first version of the projected MOOC will be in German, too. Getting one of the awards should offer the possibility to build an English version later on. I would be delighted if you could adjust our Smalltalk-MOOC project by voting for the course https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/objektorientierte-programmierung-von-... Thank you very much Johannes Brauer Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Brauer Dean of Computer Science Departement Tel.: 04121 409030 Fax.: 04121 409040 e-mail: brauer@nordakademie.de e-mal priv.: brauer@acm.org ________________________________ Staatlich anerkannte private Fachhochschule NORDAKADEMIE Gemeinnützige Aktiengesellschaft Köllner Chaussee 11 25337 Elmshorn Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Georg Plate (Vorsitzender), Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Meier (stellv. Vorstand) Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. h.c. Hans-Heinrich Bruns Sitz: Elmshorn, Amtsgericht Pinneberg, HRB 1682