The effectiveness of four instructional approaches used in a MOOC promoting personal skills for success in life

tThis study examines the efficacy of a MOOC-format instructional program, Improvement of personal com-petencies for success, which entailed the use of four clearly differentiated instructional approaches (threeexperimental approaches and one control approach): (1) product, with an emphasis on the final resultand the overall quality; (2) processes, with an emphasis on recursion and constant self-assessment ofthe processes; (3) mixed, oriented on the result and overall quality as well as to recursion, self-reflectionand self-assessment; and (4) traditional (control) focused on online instruction of the subjects and onthe accomplishment of tasks. The MOOC was designed and implemented through the Universidad deLeón’s external Moodle (Ariadne). It involved 745 people aged between 10 and 50, though only 336 com-pleted it. The results demonstrate the efficacy of the MOOC—irrespective of the instructional approachfollowed—for instruction on different contents and competencies, such as resilience, achievement moti-vation and self-esteem; they reveal a statistically significant increase in different variables such asself-efficacy and they confirm the effectiveness of Moodle for the design and development of a MOOC.The implications of these findings are discussed and evaluated.

• Autores: García Martín, Judit; García-Sánchez, Jesús-Nicasio
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/5937
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/11323/5937; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs); e-learning; Motivation; Emotional intelligence; Self-regulation; Cursos Online Masivos y Abiertos; E-learning; Motivación; Inteligencia emocional; Autoeficacia
• Rights: openAccess
• License: CC0 1.0 Universal