Massive on-line open course: users' learning preferences in an ecuadorian university
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ABSTRACT
The Massive Online Open Courses are an evolution in education where there is free delivery of information without demographic and geographical limits, aimed at a varied audience, offering the possibility of continuous training. Thus, the University of the Armed Forces ESPE in Ecuador, needs to stay at the forefront in terms of education and offers in this type of course. Therefore, the objective of this study is to know the preferences of users to acquire knowledge within this type of course. The research arises from a previous study on the analysis of a set of high-quality MOOCs to identify the instructional design practices of the MOOC platforms recognized worldwide. The present study is approached with the collection of data through a survey applied to (N=449) students at the University. The results have shown that practical work, forums and questionnaires, videoconferences, social networks, chats, and shared documents are the main means of preference for students to acquire knowledge within MOOCs. Survey results indicate that, to carry out activities to acquire knowledge, the MOOC must propose practical work, forums, and questionnaires, as well as for the interaction within the course, videoconferences, social networks, chat and Google Docs should be used. The results will have practical and pedagogical implications for the Ecuadorian context.
KEYWORDS: preference; users; MOOC; online; Instructional design.
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