Vers la fin des inégalités face à la formation ?

• Main Authors: Jean-Sébastien Vayre, Nathalie Lenoir
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance 2019-03-01
• Series: Distances et Médiations des Savoirs
• Subjects: MOOC; democratization of knowledge; inequalities; learning analytics; uses
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/dms/3361

The MOOC constitute pedagogical innovations that are often presented as radical. For their promoters, these innovations have the advantage of promoting a real democratization of knowledge. Considering the scientific literature, this promise could be one of the myths that underlies the development of digital technologies in the educational sphere. Thus, in order to better identify and understand how the uses of MOOC may or may not participate in producing inequality, we propose to explore the influence of socio-demographic factors on on-line training courses. To do this, we will rely on the analysis of traces of activity generated by users of the course “Manage your prices” which is hosted by digital education platform FutureLearn. Our goal will be to show how the uses that e-learners make of this course are shaped by the weight of social structures.