[May 03, 2013] SAP Employs openHPI Platform for Its Own Open Online Courses Tweet May 03, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- German Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) is supporting the educational initiative of the software company SAP to offer interactive online courses open to everyone - so-called MOOCs. According to a release, the courses, backed by technology and know-how from HPI and starting on May 27th, will focus on SAP software products. The Potsdam institute, who refers to this latest venture as "pioneering work in the economy," is the first institute of higher learning in Germany to offer worldwide online courses by its professors on information technology and computer science. SAP is the first globally active company to take advantage of the opportunities presented by this scientifically developed new learning form of open online courses for many participants. "By way of such Massive Open Online Courses, SAP can offer product-related educational contents worldwide, also to those who are not affiliated with a software company or who are part of the industry," said Prof. Christoph Meinel, director of Hasso Plattner Institute and head of the HPI specialized field Internet Technologies and Systems. HPI is delighted to be partnering in this highly innovative project and happy to make its platform and expertise available for this purpose, Meinel said. The new SAP offer open.sap.com relies heavily on the openHPI model in way of design, the Potsdam computer scientist added. The subject material is complementary content-wise. "While development and product experts familiarize course participants with specific in-house software solutions on openSAP, on openHPI our professors teach both fundamental concepts as well as the latest academic knowledge covering the full spectrum of information technology and computer science," Meinel added. To prepare first course participants more intensively, openSAP provided a summary of the main contents from an openHPI course led by founder Prof. Hasso Plattner. In this course, Plattner introduced the new main memory database technology researched at HPI and developed with SAP. In the meantime, it has been honored with the German Innovation Award. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]