Abstract

PRINCE, Marcella Solange; FIGUEROA, Mariana; MARTINEZ, Joaquín Antonio  and  IZQUIERDO, José Manuel. Curso MOOC para fomentar el desarrollo de competencias digitales en estudiantes universitarios y autodidactas. Rev. iberoam. tecnol. educ. educ. tecnol. [online]. 2016, n.17, pp.16-29. ISSN 1851-0086.

The aim of this project was to design and implement a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The objective was to determine how the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in academic projects promotes the development of basic digital competencies of university students from three public Mexican universities and one private Venezuelan university. The general objective was to design an OER, which consists of four-week course to disseminate knowledge among university students and self-educated people in order to develop basic digital competencies, specifically, searching and filtering graphic information, selecting and reusing correctively images taking into consideration Copyright. This study sought if it was possible to develop the competencies and abilities to use digital information correctly, by using the Project Based Learning (PBL) in an educational OER context; different sources were reviewed and classified into three different fields of study; online learning, its link and the innovation in educational-professional development, digital competencies and the studies on the field. The methodology implemented was the Case Based Learning, which is qualitative. Some interviews to students, teacher, experts and designers were conducted, information obtained from teacher logs and different important information obtained from the online course were analyzed and contrasted with what the fields of study of this project state. The preliminary results obtained show that the use of OER promotes basic digital competencies development, such as the correct search and selection of images. In addition, when a student knows and has relevant information, which can be used as a scaffolding to construct new knowledge, it is easier to develop the ability to analyze that information. The digital competence to evaluate information can be stimulated by the use of OER and by taking a MOOC course, which allows the development of the student´s autonomy to enhance their abilities to analyze, synthesize and to express information accurately and responsibly.

Keywords : MOOC; Project based learning; Open educational resources; Digital competencies.