The MECD Quality Certification Proposal of MOOC Courses

This article discusses the possible application of quality standards MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (MECD) of Spain through EduTool®, registered trademark in the Spanish Office of Patent and Trademark (3,087,298 in force). This work comes from a line of research of the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville and it was developed in the Computational Intelligence Laboratory (hereinafter CIL) under the auspices of the UNE 66181. In the tool we have analyzed the weights of the subfactors of each of the dimensions (recognition of training, learning methodology and levels of accessibility) of this standard for Quality Management of Virtual Training for MOOC by fuzzy logic. In this sense, It arises the possibility to apply the quality certification of that tool to the Ministry MOOC educational offer in order to alleviate the high dropout rate of users in the MOOC pilot plan for teacher education occurred in 2014, within the lines of action of the project "New Forms of Training" and, thus, be avoided in the offered training activities for this current year 2015. Key-Words: MOOC, Training, Educational Quality, Educational Assessment, Quality Management, MECD, E-Learning.

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