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1、SupportingcrowdsourcinginMOOCinformalface-to-facemeetingsCarlosAlario-Hoyos,MarPérez-Sanagustín,andCarlosDelgado-Kloos,DepartmentofTelematicEngineering,UniversidadCarlosIIIdeMadridAv.Universidad,30,28911,Leganés(Madrid),Spain{calario,mmpsanag,cdk}@it.uc3m.esAbstract.MOOCsar
2、ecurrentlyoneofthemainbuzzwordsineducation.Theseparticularonlinecoursesarecharacterizedbytheopennessoftheircontents,whicharetypicallypackagedinvideoformat,andbythelargenumberofparticipants.Thislargenumberofpotentiallearnersfacilitatescreatingdistributedcommunitieswithsimila
3、rinterestsaroundtheworldthatcanphysicallymeetperiodicallytosharetheirthoughts,discussabouttheMOOCtopicsandhelpstudentswithproblemstoovercomethedifficulties.ThesemeetingsareinformalsincetheyareoutsidethecoursescheduleandMOOCteachersdonotnormallyparticipateonthem.Nevertheless
4、,itcouldbeofinterestforMOOCteacherstoofferatentativestructurethatleadstheface-to-facediscussionsintheseinformalmeetings,aswellastocollectthemainconclusionsattheend,sothattheseconclusionscanbethestartingpointinmeetingsheldatotherlocations.Thispaperexplainshowthisinformallear
5、ningsettingcouldleveragetheadvantagesofusingtagstoconnectMOOCswithface-to-faceencountersandthetag-basedauthoringtooletiquetARasthesupportforprovidingastructureforthediscussionsandcollectingtheconclusionsofthesemeetings.Keywords:MOOCs,informalface-to-facemeetings,crowdsourci
6、ng.1IntroductionMOOCs(MassiveOpenOnlineCourses)havecausedadisruptionineducation[1],allowinglearnerstoreceiveaffordabletrainingfrommajorinstitutionsworldwide.MOOCalsoalloweducatorstoreachthousandsoflearnersinterestedinimprovingtheirknowledgeinagivensubject,nomattertheirorigi
7、n,ageorliteracy[2].ThisispossiblethankstothespreadoftheInternetandtheappearanceofinitiativeslikeCoursera1,edX2,Udacity3orMiríadaX4,whichallowthecentralizationofMOOCcontentsandassignments,enablingtheaccesstoalargenumberofconcurrentusers.Fromaneducationalperspective,MOOCsarep
8、ositionedontheborderbetweenformalandinformallearning.Fromtheformallearningperspect
