MOOC: assessment of a future
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https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.21.2.20930Keywords:
MOOC, assessment, experience, peer interaction, expectations.Abstract
This article presents the results of the evaluation of an experience of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) offered by different European universities. The courses were issued in more than 30 countries. Internationality is one of the basis of this type of training as a direct result of its openness. The analysis integrates some of the multiple dimensions that can be assessed from MOOCs and it is carried out from two online surveys in the first and second halves of 2015. The experience of these MOOC is evaluated by integrating: aspects of socio-demographic profile students, their opinions regarding the interaction between peers and their expectations about this type of training. The article observes the opinion on different methodologies proposed by the courses, in order to approach to best practices that could help new proposals of MOOC to different contexts and countries, and different subjects. The article emphasizes the stability of the results of the evaluation of the dimensions taken into account. Such stability points to the evaluation’s reliability and own consistency of the favorable assessment obtained by those dimensions, with a remarkable degree of satisfaction.
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