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Self-motivation challenges for student involvement in the Open Educational Movement with MOOC
García Espinosa, Brenda Jeanett · Tenorio Sepúlveda, Gloria Concepción · Ramírez Montoya, María Soledad

Translated titleRetos de automotivación para el involucramiento de estudiantes en el movimiento educativo abierto con MOOC
PublishedJanuary 2015
JournalRUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 91-103
Original PublicationRevista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento
CountrySpain

ABSTRACT
This article attempts to answer the questions: What are the challenges, problems and obstacles of involving less self-motivated students in MOOCs and how do they relate to their learning connectivism? The correlations between connectivism and contextualized learning through a formative experience of the Open Educational Movement was analyzed in order to propose strategies that result in greater perseverance, active participation and retention of less self-motivated students in MOOCs. A mixed method approach was used to survey students, interview students and coordinators, and analyze relevant documents. The findings were classified as (1) Challenges: self-motivation, self-regulation abilities, extra time invested, release requirements, goals and inductive activities before the course opening, unsatisfactory identification of students, difficult activities, feedback monitoring and a platform incompatible with balancing its use with that of social networks; (2) Problems: limited information and communication technology skills, difficult feedback research in forums, uncertain peer feedback when not theory-based or scaffolded by teachers, scarce theoretical support in evidence portfolios and a lack of means to help low self-motivated or self-regulated students; (3) Main contextual obstacles: some students cannot count on their employers’ support or continuous technology access, some students basic wellbeing needs are not met, and inability to contextualize learning; (4) Connectivism: students’ motivation in the MOOC content and their expanding knowledge networks. Based on these findings, a MOOC design requirement template aimed at supporting students’ self-motivation and self-regulation through connectivism is provided.

Este artículo indagó la siguiente cuestión: ¿cuáles son los desafíos, problemas y obstáculos para involucrar a los estudiantes menos automotivados en los MOOC y cómo se relacionan con el conectivismo de sus aprendizajes? El objetivo fue analizar las correlaciones entre el conectivismo y el aprendizaje estudiantil contextualizado, en una experiencia formativa del movimiento educativo abierto, con el fin de aportar estrategias que generen mayor perseverancia de estos estudiantes, participación activa y retención estudiantil. El método de estudio fue mixto, con aplicación de encuestas a estudiantes, entrevistas a alumnos y maestros, así como el análisis de documentos significativos. Los hallazgos se clasificaron en: (1) Desafíos: requerimiento de habilidades de automotivación, autorregulación y tiempo adicional por parte de algunos alumnos, difícil monitoreo de retroalimentaciones y actividades, falta de liberación anticipada de requerimientos, objetivos y actividades de inducción, deficiente identificación de alumnos observadores e incompatibilidad entre la plataforma y el uso de redes sociales; (2) Problemas: baja apropiación tecnológica de participantes, difícil búsqueda de retroalimentaciones específicas en los foros, portafolios de evidencias sin fundamento teórico y falta de recursos de ayuda para estudiantes de baja automotivación y autorregulación; (3) Obstáculos: falta de apoyo de los centros de trabajo para los participantes del MOOC y de acceso continuo a recursos digitales, incumplimiento de las necesidades personales básicas de los estudiantes sobre bienestar y el no contextualizar nuevos saberes; (4) Conectivismo: motivación de los participantes en sus contenidos e incremento de sus redes de saber. Con base en estos hallazgos se aporta una plantilla con requisitos de diseño de MOOC, enfocado a la automotivación y autorregulación estudiantil mediante el conectivismo.

Keywords aprendizaje contextualizado · automotivación · conectivismo · connectivism · contextualized learning · e-learning · movimiento educativo abierto · open education movement · self-motivation

Published atBarcelona
LanguageEnglish and Spanish
ISSN1698-580X
RefereedYes
Rightsby/3.0/es/deed.en
DOI10.7238/rusc.v12i1.2185
Other informationRUSC. Rev. de Univ. y Soc. del Con.
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