Higher Education MOOCs: a Work in Progress

  • Hipólito Vivar Zurita Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Raquel Vinader Segura Centro de Estudios Superiores Felipe II (UCM)
  • Natalia Abuín Vences Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESMP.2015.v21.n1.49115
Keywords: MOOCs, ICT in Education, Higher Education, Educational Innovations, Virtual Teaching.

Abstract

The advent of ICT to education has brought back into fashion a new type of online courses based on free and open access to all kind of users: Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The popularity of this new teaching mode does that major universities and academic institutions around the world are creating platforms to offer this kind of courses, without the existence of a business model that can make them profitable by its promoters. The aim of this paper is to analyze the expectations and level of acceptance of such courses by conducting a field experiment, based on the study of a MOOC by a sample of students of communication.

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Published
2015-05-11
How to Cite
Vivar Zurita H., Vinader Segura R. y Abuín Vences N. (2015). Higher Education MOOCs: a Work in Progress. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 21(1), 629-642. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESMP.2015.v21.n1.49115
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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2015)
Section
Research and Documents

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