The latest issue of IRRODL has this item studying "the pedagogic architecture of MOOC on pedagogic/educational subjects in Spanish over one academic year" (ie., last year). The study includes courses from Coursera, Miriadax, EdX, Eco and Educalab. The results aren't surprising (or, as I suppose I should say, the results provide some data consistent with my prior intuitions). "All of them (the courses) used traditional methodological strategies (100%), followed by applied strategies (61.10%) and lastly dialogic strategies (55.56%)... videos are present in all of the cases (100% of the courses), the next most used educational resource are forums (82.38%) followed by teaching guides and background reading (both 69.45%)." The courses were, in other words, almost completely traditional content-based courses. The best part of the article is the discussion on the varying use of forums in the different courses, including in social media.
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