Implementation of a MOOC in classroom courses as a strategy to raise the academic performance

Authors

  • Vidal Paz Robles Instituto Tecnológico Superior de El Grullo Mexico
  • Jaime Eduardo Zepeda Ruíz Instituto Tecnológico Superior de El Grullo Mexico

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20548/innoeduca.2016.v2i1.1065

Keywords:

Online Courses, Virtual Environments, Academic Achievement

Abstract

Innovation is a process that generates benefits in education; for that ITS El Grullo conducted a study to assess learning strategies, the results of the implementation of a massive online open course; its acronym in English MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), in which a group of students from ITS El Grullo coursing; Probability and descriptive statistics tested the usefulness of the MOOC to raise the academic performance of students in this course. We worked with two groups that studied the subject with the purpose of having a control group and one to which you apply the treatment; to perform a statistical test T, which was applied to verify if the treatment was effective and to analyze whether there were significant differences for the implemented strategy. The results obtained through a type evaluation test showed that students who underwent the treatment with the MOOC obtained significantly higher scores in the statistical sense, than those who worked with traditional teaching strategies. Therefore it is concluded that the implementation of a MOOC in a classroom course can be a good strategy to increase the academic performance of students.

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Author Biographies

Vidal Paz Robles, Instituto Tecnológico Superior de El Grullo

Profesor de Tiempo Completo, en el Departamento de Gestion Empresarial y Lider de línea de investigacion "Enseñanza-aprendizaje y desarrollo humano.

Jaime Eduardo Zepeda Ruíz, Instituto Tecnológico Superior de El Grullo

Jefe de División en el Departamento de Gestion Empresarial.

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2016-06-01

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Paz Robles, V., & Zepeda Ruíz, J. E. (2016). Implementation of a MOOC in classroom courses as a strategy to raise the academic performance. Innoeduca. International Journal of Technology and Educational Innovation, 2(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.20548/innoeduca.2016.v2i1.1065

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016)

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