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The Firefox OS MOOC course is one of the first projects in the Hungarian Mozilla/Firefox OS community to try and get Open Web education (via Firefox OS) into Hungarian universities.

The project was founded by Krisztián Karóczkai in 2013 who started the first Firefox OS MOOC course at Óbuda University, in Budapest, Hungary.

MOOC?

MOOC is the initialism „Massive Open Online Courses”, and describes online courses available online for free, for a wide audience to provide accessible, open information and opportunity for learning.

There are several MOOC providers already worldwide (like Coursera, az Udacity), the Firefox OS course is part of the K-MOOC platform, a Hungarian-language MOOC platform operated by Óbuda University. The K-MOOC platform is expected to serve any and all higher education institutions (colleges & universities alike) in the Carpathian Basin where the language of teaching is Hungarian with online courses in diverse topics from jazz through ergonomics & pedagogy to computer sciences and programming.

History

The Firefox OS MOOC course (titled „Mobil alkalmazás fejlesztés FirefoxOS platformon” mobile application development on the Firefox OS platform) was first announced by Krisztián Karóczkai and Kálmán Szalai at Webkonferencia 2013, and launched the next semester, in the February of 2014 at Óbuda University.