POK stands for Polimi Open Knowledge: it is an initiative of Politecnico di Milano, started in 2014, to develop MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses).

The POK slogan is “MOOCs to bridge the gaps”: it expresses the strategy adopted by Politecnico di Milano to:

• support students during their career;
• promote teaching innovation in both higher education institutions and schools;
• promote academic social responsibility (opening up the expertise of Politecnico di Milano for the benefit of a general audience, promoting conscious citizenship in compliance with the third mission of universities).

To this end, we classified the courses by six thematic patterns.