Turning out a social community into an e-Learning platform for MOOC: the case of AbiertaUGR

  • Authors:

  • Rosana Montes;Serafina Molina;Miguel Gea;Roberto Bergaz;David Bravo-Lupiáñez;Antonio Ramos

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Students of the University of Granada, Granada, Spain;University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Students of the University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Students of the University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Students of the University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technological Ecosystem for Enhancing Multiculturality
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper considers the interest of traditional high educational institution to bounce into the world of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). This learning approach is defined over the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) in a basis of a high number of users that interact with the learning materials (mostly multimedia resources). This approach implies some challenges to the software platform that lies behind the learning experience. In this work we are going to evaluate the Open Source Social Networking Engine, ELGG, and how it has strongly evolved to AbiertaUGR.