Connectivist MOOCs, where collective and connected student’s contributions become the stars of course, are not only an opportunity to their participants but also for knowledge society and open educational resources. The most MOOC platforms usually have rigid structures, limiting the content contributions to teachers’ role and leaving students’ contributions to internal forums, blogs or wikis only accessible for registered users. This lack of openness forces to seek external solutions outside the platform as learning communities such as social networks. Another problem is the difficulty of assessing the skills learned associated with educational evidence provided by the students, whether in external communities, without any possibility of evaluating automatic; or in discussion forums of MOOC platforms where karma or experience points will be awarded without any reward or certificate; or peer-to-peer assessment solutions private and with few social interaction. This paper proposes a previous theoretical model, it will be develop through a blog, where find the basic content and the learning guide, focusing the weight of the course in a open gamified forum using Question2Answer platform. In the forum students will generate the content and make connections allowing the evaluation of resources or evidences, provided by the reviews and votes of the whole community of participants, such us certificates or badges skills associated with course competences and topics.

1. GAMIFIED OPEN Q&A FORUM
MODEL AS A PLATFORM FOR A
CMOOCS
(7TH MARCH 2016)
Oriol Borrás-Gene, Margarita Martinez-Núñez, Alegría Blázquez-Sevilla
2016

2. MOOC AND cMOOC
WE ARE CONNECTED!!
MASSIVE ONLINE OPEN COURSES
CONNECTIVISM
OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
LIMITATIONS
LEARNING
COMMUNITIES

3. Forum and Q&A sites
A forum is a space in which users can write messages into
threads and others respond generated discussions and
interaction
self-regulate
open
Gamified

4. General MOOC model
Classic course

5. General MOOC model
Freedom course

6. General MOOC model
As learning community

7. Q&A MOOC
Categories
Points and levels
Privileges
BadgesBadges
Platform badges
Course badges
Tags
Categories

8. Assessment and certificate
Reputation basedPublication
Category
Tags

9. Conclusions
• Content generation (cMOOC) will be an oportunity for
open knowledge and open educational resources
• Enhance student digital skills
• Improvement in performance through self-regulation
(overcome limitations of cMOOC)
• Peer review mechanisms (certificates)

10. Future works
• Implement model
• Develop badges associated to publications for
assessment and Open badges standard
• Add evidences to badge information
• More platform features…

11. Thank you for
your
attention
Oriol Borrás Gené
oriol.borras@upm.es
@oriolupm