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The Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain is an online university with over 54,000 students in more than 100 bachelor, master’s and doctorial programs, in addition to almost 300 diplomas and specialist courses.

To better prepare graduates for the labour market and professional environments, UOC is adopting an online program and course design model built around developing competencies and demonstrating learning outcomes through completing challenge activities. 

As well as linking student outcomes more closely to demands of the 21^st century workplace, the course redesign project has a number of additional educational and design goals:

• Encourage and support students with clearer goals, directions, time allotments and explanations of requirements to increase success and reduce the dropout rate;
• Use the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) to allocate credit hours to each designated course "component".  As each ECTS credit is equivalent to 25 hours of work by the students, the assignment of 1, 1½ or 2 credits to each component clearly indicates the time students are expected to spend on the associated learning activities;
• Develop a course design that is attractive, easy to use, and appealing, with a broad mix of resources and media; and
• Use online content that is more accessible, flexible, and engaging, as well as educationally effective – moving away from large textbooks.

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