Technology in the educational field before COVID: a commitment to MOOCs as a training strategy in the university context

Abstract

Although the development of technology in the educational field has been promoting progressive changes in teaching methodology, especially at the university level, in the last quarter century, it is due to the pandemic that plagues humanity (COVID-19) when from the academic context there has been the urgent need to rethink all the operation and non-contact possibilities based on the Internet through synchronous or asynchronous teaching. Thus, with the development of MOOCs, great possibilities have been seen to meet educational demands in a non-face-to-face way, enabling individualized and open attention to the group of students who present cases and varied needs. In the present work, we intend to carry out an approach to MOCCs in terms of conceptualization, characteristics, elements and typologies, deepening their relationship with educational care in the pandemic moment that surrounds us. To finish, we will make a tour of various MOCC aggregators / search engines and we will copy several of them to demonstrate their educational potential.