iMOOC Platform: Adaptive MOOCs

Abstract

M assive Open Online Courses or M OOCs presents low completion rates, they are massive thus the participants' profile is too much heterogeneous regarding origin, capacitation, motivation and learning aims. The number of studies that propose using adaptive techniques to resolve the problems above is increasing. This work presents the logistic, methodological and technological models of an adaptivity-based framework. This framework includes the basic elements of adaptive learning using a learning management system as core technology and expanding the adaptive possibilities in the logistics of the courses. The proposed model is implemented in an adaptive platform so called iM OOC that currently has a campus composed by four adaptive MOOCs. Also, a study about the participants' perception of usefulness and their needs for the adaptive processes is presented.

User Profiling in a SPOC: A method based on User Video Clickstream Analysis

“…In fact, since a long time, User profiles have played a significant role in recommender systems, retrieval information systems, Search Personalization. But nowadays; user profiling is becoming a widely used technique in many applications like Adaptive Websites, ebusiness applications [22], information seeking [21], web browsing, one-to-one marketing [25], e-commerce websites [26,27], web personalization systems [28], Adaptive MOOCs [3,4,6,8,9,29,30], E-learning systems [16,[31][32][33][34][35].…”

“…Various approaches and techniques were used to construct a user profile. Explicit user profiling approaches consist on submitting information directly by users using online forms, surveys, or rating [4,6,9,29]. But even this technique is simple and easy way to create a user profile; it presents a risk of user entering deceitful or incomplete information [22].…”

“…In order to overcome these challenges and to improve the average completion rate for MOOCs, adaptive learning and personalized learning are recently explored within MOOCs. Adaptivity and personalization concepts have great potential to deliver the best learn-ing experiences to learners while enrolling in a MOOC [3,4,6,7,8,9,10,11]. In fact, Personalization techniques are a classic solution recommended by many experts for improving learning and adapting courses to the learning preferences and characteristics of the students can enhance the learning process, leading to an increased learner satisfaction [12,13,14,15].…”

Técnicas y metodologías para el aprendizaje cooperativo y ubicuo en la construcción de comunidades virtuales mediante MOOC

“…Huamán Castro y Flores Cueto (2015) recalcan la existencia de un número elevado de estudiantes que desconocen la metodología del MOOC, acostumbrados a otro tipo de formación, aun cuando han realizado algún curso online, donde existe un seguimiento más activo por parte del equipo docentes y con una respuesta inmediata, requisito que debería cumplir la educación online (Fidalgo-Blanco et al, 2016). Estos estudiantes encontrarán problemas en este tipo de MOOC con enfoque conectivista, basados en elementos externos como son las comunidades de aprendizaje.…”

“…Aunque fue una experiencia interesante a la hora de hablar de un nuevo tipo de MOOC adaptativos (Sein-Echaluce, Fidalgo-Blanco, García-Peñalvo y Conde, 2016), no está alineada directamente con el objetivo de la tesis. Aunque si han arrojado resultados interesantes relacionados con la gamificación como es el caso de los cuestionarios de evaluación.…”