Francisco J. García-Peñalvo, Vanessa Fernández-Hermo, Ángel Fidalgo-Blanco and Marisa Sein-Echaluce.

1. Applied Educational Innovation MOOC:
Learners’ experience and valorization of
strengths and weaknesses
Francisco J. García-Peñalvo,
Vanesa Fernández Hermo
Ángel Fidalgo Blanco
Marisa Sein-Echaluce
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2. What is a MOOC?
MASSIVE
OPEN
ONLINE
COURSE
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3. MOOCs problems
• Heterogeneous profiles
• Different training objectives
• Low finalization rate
• Acreditation
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4. Aim of this work
Improving the pedagogical issues related to the
MOOC development.
We defined a methodological approach based
on three main elements:
• Adaptivity
• Collaborative work
• Informal learning activities
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5. https://www.miriadax.net/
2014
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6. Exploratory study: questionnaire Students’ Evaluation of
Educational Quality (SEEQ) + semi-structured interviews
• Number of the enrolled participants: 6,149.
• Number of participants that started the course: 3,736.
• Number of participants that finished the course: 1,735.
• 1,047 participants that answered the questionnaire
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7. Heterogeneous profiles
Country
Age
More than 50 years
Between 40 and 49 years
Between 30 and 39 years
Less than 29 years
Participants Rate
16.7%
27.9%
29%
26.4%
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8. Heterogeneous profiles
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9. Heterogeneous profiles
Previous experience with MOOCs
Participants Rate
Started Finished
36.8 31.8
19.4 14.8
3.4 2.8
0.5
385 325
c
Till 3
Between 4 and 10
c
c
c
c
Yes
No
Between 11 and 20
More than 21
54.3%
45.7%
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10. Heterogeneous profiles
Previous experience with Educational Innovation
Participants Rate
35.5%
27.4%
30.9%
6.2%
No previous experience in Educational Innovation
Only has seen information in Internet
Has applied or applies Educational Innovation practices
Has played or plays a role related to the
management of the Educational Innovation
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11. Heterogeneous profiles
Motivation to make the MOOC
Participants Rate
7.3%
26.1%
22.8%
18.4%
23.6%
0.8%
0.6%
Knowing what Educational Innovation
is, but I do not think to apply it by now
Starting to apply the Educational
Innovation practices
Having a new perspective about
Educational Innovation
Broadening the education in general
Professional interest
Knowing how is organized the course
and its materials
Obtaining a certificate
Other 0.5%
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12. Videos+ pdfs + tests in MiriadaX
Methodology
Social
Network
Educational Innovation
Blog (Ángel Fidalgo)
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13. Participation
High finalization rate of our MOOC
Enrolled 6149
Completion over enrolled 28,2%
Completion over starting participants 46,4%
Mean finalization in all MiriadaX MOOCs 13,95%
Participation in the cooperative activities on enrolled 32,8%
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15. Global evaluation of the MOOC
• only 32 participants of 1,047 evaluated the
MOOC negatively with “little” or “nothing”
Too much
Quite well
Well
Little
Nothing
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16. Self-evaluation of the participants’ learning
Nothing Little Well Quite
well
Too much
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17. Conclusions
• Very successful finalization rate (46.4%)
• Positive perception of the personal attitude
and learning
• Good valuations to the learning community,
also as an option for the long life learning.
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18. Conclusions
Participants demand:
• Improvements to manage the knowledge
generated in the learning community
• Participants, with previous knowledge in EI,
give positive value to their own perception.
Adaptivity is needed.
• More assessment methods, with more
interaction and feedback
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19. Conclusions
We conclude that:
• Only a methodological framework is not
enough to cover all the problems related to
MOOC
• The debate around MOOCs is helping to
change and improve the online learning
models
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20. Thank you very much
mlsein@unizar.es
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