France Université Numérique (FUN), the French Ministry of Higher Education’s Open edX-based MOOC platform, has reached one million students. “We have 991,311 users in 224 countries: 48% of users are in France, and 52% are outside of France (figures for January 2017); of the latter, most users come from Brazil and Morocco,” explained a FUN representative on Class Central.
This project, launched in July 2013 with the aim to support French universities and increase their visibility in the Francophone world, has attracted 99 institutions –including three universities in Belgium, one in Switzerland, and two in Tunisia– who have produced over 300 MOOCs.
The most popular courses are the following:
| Higher education institution | MOOC title | Registration numbers |
| Le Cnam | Du manager agile au leader designer | 113357 |
| Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) | L’anglais pour tous – Spice up Your English | 99693 |
| L’Alliance française de Paris | Cours de français langue étrangère A2 | 82067 |
| Université Paris-Sud | Introduction à la statistique avec R | 47803 |
| Institut Mines-Télécom | Principes des réseaux de données | 37676 |
| Institut Mines-Télécom | Fondamentaux pour le Big Data | 36562 |
| Inria | Python : des fondamentaux à l’utilisation du langage | 33268 |
| Le Cnam | Le droit des contrats de travail en France | 31194 |
| Groupe INSA | Introduction à HTML5 – Animations et jeux | 29319 |
| Institut Mines-Télécom | Innover et entreprendre dans un monde numérique | 25380 |
(Graphic developed by Class Central.)
With 15 employees, all of the located in Paris, this platform gets its revenue through annual fees of universities, certificates from learners and custom services to partners such as dedicated SPOCs and white-label edX platforms.
