Interactivity and participation from the communicative model of the MOOC

• Main Author: Javier Gil Quintana
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 2017-11-01
• Series: Index Comunicación
• Subjects: cursos en Línea Masivos Abiertos; MOOC; educación superior; aprendizaje virtual; método de aprendizaje; participación social
• Online Access: http://journals.sfu.ca/indexcomunicacion/index.php/indexcomunicacion/article/view/346

The European project ECO has contributed to the massive spread of open courses and courses online (MOOC), leading to the development of an educational model that aims evade all kinds of hierarchical and undirectional communication by means of the interaction and student participation. This study presents the joint analysis of the communicative model that has been developed in the MOOC ‘Educational Innovation and professional development. Possibilities and limitations of TIC’ within the spaces of the platform, in addition to the interactions in social networks and in the forums, analyzed by means of the virtual ethnography, interviews and the analysis of the discourse of students in course digital scenarios. We conclude this paper by stating that the role of teachers is essential to enhance the interactivity and participation of students in these digital spaces, elevating the MOOC to the social level and contributing to the dissemination of approaches that, within the process of formation, have been generated in the virtual learning community, opening the way to the participation of the citizens in the collective construction of knowledge.