Experiencias y reflexiones tras el desarrollo del MOOC "Sistemas Coloidales, del laboratorio a la cocina"
- Juan Carlos López-Robles
- Xavier Fernández Hospital
- María del Carmen Hernández Puga
- Belén Orgaz Martín
ISSN: 2254-6529
Year of publication: 2019
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Pages: 55-69
Type: Article
More publications in: 3 c TIC: cuadernos de desarrollo aplicados a las TIC
Sustainable development goals
Abstract
In a globalized world, Universities and Higher Education Postgraduate Centers seek strategies for publicizing their teaching offer beyond their frontiers. One of these is to develop MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), which philosophy is spreading education all over the world. Moreover, this provides access to higher education training even to people that traditionally would have difficulties, whether financial or cultural. The present work describes the experiences and reflections collected by the teaching team of the MOOC “Colloidal Systems: from the laboratory to the kitchen” after its first edition. It was offered by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) on the Miríada X platform. In order to gather information, students had to fill a mandatory satisfaction survey at the end of the course. Teachers´ survey results together with data provided by the platform were analyzed through a SWOT matrix. Overall, the evaluation of the course turned out to be very positive. However, an increase in the dropout rate was observed in those modules with peer to peer (P2P) activities, showing a strong relationship between these two events. Likewise, the use of Spanish in the course limited its expansion to other countries in which this is not the first language. Among the strengths of the course respondents highlighted the multidisciplinary nature of the teaching team, the great knowledge in virtual environments and the quality of the audiovisual material provided by the UCM. The inclusion of a Facebook group link encouraged students to interact with each other and share their tasks. Thus, social networks are an added value to the dissemination and success of this kind of courses. All these aspects must be taken into account in order to implement future editions of this and other MOOC courses.
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