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EMOOCs 2017: Digital Education: Out to the World and Back to the Campus pp 68–76Cite as

Towards Full Engagement for Open Online Education. A Practical Experience for a MicroMaster

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This work explores on the different phases of the student’s participation in a MOOC. For this particular study three phases of a MOOC are defined: pre-MOOC, MOOC and post-MOOC. This work presents an innovative framework with the aim to create full engagement for the learners on massive open online learning environments. The proposed framework was prepared with the aim to increase the engagement and motivation of the student from the enrollment step to the start of the course, but the most important objective is to extend the interaction beyond the end of the course, the post-MOOC phase. This work explores the experience from two “MicroMaster” specializations in the edX platform: “Professional Android Developer” and one specialization taught in Spanish: “E-Learning for teachers: create innovative activities and content”.

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Acknowledgments

This work is partially supported by European Union through the Erasmus+programme - projects MOOC-Maker and ACAI-LA.

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  1. GES Department, Galileo University, Guatemala, Guatemala

    Rocael Hernández & Hector R. Amado-Salvatierra

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  1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

    Carlos Delgado Kloos

  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Patrick Jermann

  3. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, San Joaquín, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Mar Pérez-Sanagustín

  4. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel T. Seaton

  5. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Su White

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Hernández, R., Amado-Salvatierra, H.R. (2017). Towards Full Engagement for Open Online Education. A Practical Experience for a MicroMaster. In: Delgado Kloos, C., Jermann, P., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Seaton, D., White, S. (eds) Digital Education: Out to the World and Back to the Campus. EMOOCs 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10254. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59044-8_8

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