Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) is a new reality in education. Thousands of students are involved in this new type of courses, where professors take only the role of moderators. First, MOOC courses were designed to satisfy the curiosity or informal learning needs of people, opening the university knowledge to all society. However, as time, passes, people are requesting a higher social recognition for these activities, trying to make Universities to consider them as part of formal degrees. This new vision, nevertheless, requires from courses to guarantee a certain learning level, which several time cannot be evaluated using only test exams, thus, most course include now Peer-to-Peer (P2P) activities as final task, where students develop a creative works and evaluate the proposal of a set of other students. Informal observation, however, seem to show that MOOC including P2P have a lower success rate, as many students do not participate in these activities. In order to scientifically validate these observations, a pilot experience was planned and carried out at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, using a Spanish-Portuguese MOOC platform. Results confirmed most informal observations.
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) is a new reality in education. Thousands of students are involved in this new type of courses, where professors take only the role of moderators. First, MOOC courses were designed to satisfy the curiosity or informal learning needs of people, opening the university knowledge to all society. However, as time, passes, people are requesting a higher social recognition for these activities, trying to make Universities to consider them as part of formal degrees. This new vision, nevertheless, requires from courses to guarantee a certain learning level, which several time cannot be evaluated using only test exams, thus, most course include now Peer-to-Peer (P2P) activities as final task, where students develop a creative works and evaluate the proposal of a set of other students. Informal observation, however, seem to show that MOOC including P2P have a lower success rate, as many students do not participate in these activities. In order to scientifically validate these observations, a pilot experience was planned and carried out at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, using a Spanish-Portuguese MOOC platform. Results confirmed most informal observations. Read More
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