77 Online credit courses in English from Germany - from €16/ECTS

[rachel83az]

Awesome! Thanks for finding that information.

[FrHaseKopf]

Received a lengthy reply from VBH (translated by DeepL from German):

The certificates/grades you receive according to the course description in the course program CLASSIC vhb, section "Examination", are created by the course administrators according to the examination regulations of the provider universities, not by the vhb. Since vhb is not a university but only an affiliated institute of its provider universities, it cannot - due to its lack of university status - issue graded certificates of attendance/certificates/grade certificates recognized in the university sector.
If you need to apply for the certificate/credit, you should find appropriate information in the course description or in the course. For students using courses from their own university, grades may only be reported to the Examinations Office through the usual channels.

The vhb acts only as a financier and broker (e.g., central participant registration, central catalog functions) of the course offerings distributed through the vhb. The courses offered via the vhb portals are the responsibility of the respective provider university. The course and examination implementation (i.e. content creation, course hosting, course supervision and examination taking, including grade determination and certification) is the responsibility of the university offering the respective course. Questions regarding the course/examination procedures can - beyond the information provided in the vhb course program - only be answered by the instructor offering and responsible for the course.

The university offering the course "Imaging in Astronomy" is the University of Würzburg (Prof. Dr. Kadler), course supervisor is Mr. Kappes (alexander.kappes@uni-wuerzburg.de) - from there you will also receive the certificate.

[rachel83az]

I'm very interested to hear what the exams are like from someone who goes through one (or more) of these courses. I hope that people aren't required to go to an actual testing center.

[Zardoz]

Since vhb is not a university but only an affiliated institute of its provider universities, it cannot - due to its lack of university status - issue graded certificates of attendance/certificates/grade certificates recognized in the university sector.
If you need to apply for the certificate/credit, you should find appropriate information in the course description or in the course.

so this is basically as I had suspected earlier ... the provider universities issue the transcripts. That's a bit of a shame, it would be more convenient (and cheaper for eval purposes) to have a consolidated transcript.

[FrHaseKopf]

Not all courses have exams. Some are portfolio, case study or seminar papers. I don't know what the exams are like for an "open course", but in the German university I went to, in the online courses the professors just give you a "take-home exam", which you have to finish within 24 hours. (Usually more difficult than closed-book exams, and some even require that you write lengthy answers by hand then scan.) I doubt they will actually require you to go to a test center, but ask the professor before enrolment just to be sure.

[FrHaseKopf]

some further update:

I checked some course pages, they actually put detailed information of exams/assessment. For example, "Programming in C++" , "Fundamental of Project Management" have "take-home exam"; "Engineering Mathematics" has "Online-Test", but some courses like "IT Support" has written exam which takes place in the university (they specified exam location).

[MrPanda]

some further update:

I checked some course pages, they actually put detailed information of exams/assessment. For example, "Programming in C++" , "Fundamental of Project Management" have "take-home exam";  "Engineering Mathematics" has "Online-Test", but some courses like "IT Support" has written exam which takes place in the university (they specified exam location).

I also got the long emails, and tried log in to Classic vhb, but no luck.

But after a Google translate, it seems like if the access is not yet functional until a certain date?

And I´m supposed to register to the courses, and then get the information from them about the payment, and then I get the access, and I´m also supposed to check requirements.

But actually it seems too confusing, I´m almost giving up.

Yesterday I was able to make Xamk work, it was much easier.

[FrHaseKopf]

some further update:

I checked some course pages, they actually put detailed information of exams/assessment. For example, "Programming in C++" , "Fundamental of Project Management" have "take-home exam";  "Engineering Mathematics" has "Online-Test", but some courses like "IT Support" has written exam which takes place in the university (they specified exam location).

I also got the long emails, and tried log in to Classic vhb, but no luck.

But after a Google translate, it seems like if the access is not yet functional until a certain date?

And I´m supposed to register to the courses, and then get the information from them about the payment, and then I get the access, and I´m also supposed to check requirements.

But actually it seems too confusing, I´m almost giving up.

Yesterday I was able to make Xamk work, it was much easier.

agree, the German sites are really not that friendly...

[rachel83az]

This thread just returned to my radar. Has anyone been successful taking any of these courses?

[bjcheung77]

Hmm, I wonder how these would go (along with the inexpensive Finnish ones on the WIKI), if someone who has taken these already (or some of them), how did it transfer to any of the institutions we usually talk about? Any tried transferring these credits?