Telescope, a MOOC initiative in latin america infrastructure, best practices, completion and dropout analysis

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2. Hello my name is Miguel Morales, I am from Guatemala. My presentation is divided into two parts; in the first part I will present the main features about telescope project, initiative for Latin American Region with the similar objective of Coursera or Edx. In the last part I will present the results of four courses implemented in the last year; I will share our results about behavior of students, completion rates and drop-out reasons
3. The telescope project is a result of our experience during 10 years of developing online courses. Like others universities, we saw the potential of the MOOCs about educational field . We create our proposal with three diferents aspects: a “boot camp” module, that can last one week, meant for participants to get acquainted with the work spaces, tools and services, as well as with the processes of work and communication that will be used in the course. We create diferents activities using cloud-based tool, the idea is create learning artifacts develop a strong social dimension that aims to create learning communities and the production of learning artifacts using cloud based-tools.
4. The students can register by mail or using the facebook option.
5. The MOOCs were designed in units, distributed typically one per week depending upon duration and objetives. Each would typically have between 6 to 8 content videos with associated activities and assignments supported by a selection of cloud-based tools to prepare their skills and knowledge for real life scenarios. There was also a introduction module (“bootcamp”) the purpose is to introduce the course and provide general information about the structure course, the assessment system, the use of the platform, and the social tools offered throughout the MOOC. During the course, students accessed the content, interacted with their peers and tutor using collaborative forums and completed learning activities and assignments using different tools.
6. This is a portal course. We use as LMS (.LRN) and integrate with OSQA for forums. The basic structure is compuse of topics, activities and evaluations.
7. Our model is based on short videos, with commentaries integrated with facebook. This creates the interaction among peer.
8. We used OSQA for forums. We create two forums for every week and we use gamification for motivate the participation.
9. We use differents cloud-based tools for create learning artifacts, for example we use goanimate for create virtual scenarios and we use soundcloud for create podcast. In the majority of cases we uses tools for create interactive resources.
10. Our study analyzed four courses implemented in 2013; Cloud based tool for education, introduction to e-learning, medical urgencies, introductory course of android development. All courses are created with the similar characteristics and obtained the next results:
11. Is very interesting that 44% has bachelor's degree. Only 18% are studying. In your majority the students are from guatemala, but you can see, the second country with more registers is Spain
12. About participation in the forums, 35.40% of students participated in forums asking questions and solving questions to their peers. Regarding the experience of peer assessment, students who completed the course, (71.39%) indicated that this method enhance their learning experience.
13. The data collected in our MOOC experience for dropout student showed the average age was M= 37 years; 60.91% of drop-out students were male and the 56% of students have a Bachelor’s degree.
14. Maybe that learning is adaptive depending on the student profile. Find other form of assessment Search strategic alliance with different institutions that can provide expertise
15. That's it. I invite you to join www.telescopio.galileo.edu