This course introduces you to the foundations, objectives, benefits, barriers and potential negative effects of an Open Government. In the following modules we will help you grasp the key principles surrounding Open Government. The topics of the course are applied to concrete cases, which you will be asked to analyze and discuss with your peers.

The Open Government course is structured along five Learning Objectives and is covered in five modules. In the first four modules we focus on the content of the course, while the conclusions are central to the fifth module of the course. In the original MOOC the fifth module also contains an exam. In each module, there will be videos, assignments and papers. The original MOOC also contains quizzes in every module.