EvalMOOC: A Pentadimensional Instrument of Improvement for the Quality Evaluation of MOOC

Abstract

Some authors question the inadequate quality of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) for which no registration fee is required. Considering this, the students could be affected as a consequence of the lack of a common base of knowledge and academic training for employability. In this regard, a line of research arises at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville) that is developed at the Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LIC, by its acronym in Spanish) by a Research Group of EduInnovagogía (HUM-971) and that presents a comparative panorama of the evaluation indicators of two quality valuation instruments of the MOOC: EduTool and uMuMOOC. Once analyzed the strengths of both tools, this study proposes a design construct of the future instruments of improvement for quality evaluation, presented as a five vertex pyramid or pentadimensional representation. In the centre of gravity would be “the acknowledgement of training for employability”. In this way, as of this solid base, the evaluation tools would have to be configured in the following dimensions: learning design, communication-interaction, planning-management, levels of accessibility, and learning methodology. Key-words: Online Teaching and Training, MOOC, Quality Evaluation, EduTool, uMuMOOC.