Leiden Professor Richard Griffiths received the Outstanding Educator Award for Innovation during the annual Coursera Partner Conference on 22 March. The conference was hosted by Leiden University in the World Forum in The Hague and was attended by 500 participants from more than a hundred leading universities.
In 2014 Griffiths, who initiated the highly successful International Studies programme, developed one of the first Leiden Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on political economy, Configuring The World, that attracted satisfied participants from all corners of the world. Since then he has worked closely with the international student recruitment department at the University so that when he is abroad, he can organise meetings to get to know his learners.
