«Functions of a facilitator in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)»
Pedro María MarauriIUED-UNED
Abstract
The incorporation and irruption of the COMA (Massive Open Online Courses), as a new teaching/learning modality within the connectivism environment, is proving to be a real revolution that brings with it not only the massification of the student body as one might initially think, more than 250,000 students enrolled in three months on the Uned Coma, Unx and Miriada X platforms, but also the appearance of new professional roles, which try to mitigate in some way the lack of personalized tutorial attention that exists in traditional distance courses and somehow achieve a greater empathy with the students in such a way that they do not feel “institutionally” alone. Among these new emerging figures we can highlight, among others, two mainly: curators and facilitators. We are going to try to unravel the figure of the facilitator by highlighting the functions that he must perform in a course of these characteristics.
Bio
He is currently Coordinator of CSEV facilitators, Community Manager of UNED COMA, (UNED Massive and Open Online Courses) and facilitator of the unX Network, academic secretary of the International Online Master’s Degree in Drug Addiction and collaborator of the UNESCO Chair of Education a Distancia (CUED), trainer of trainers at the University Institute of Distance Education of the UNED. Likewise, he is the academic coordinator of the Ibero-American Distance Education Course. Professor – Online tutor of several key courses at the UNED such as the Master’s Degree in Ill-treatment and Gender Violence, the course called Initial Training of tutors, “Venia Docendi” for new professor-tutors at the UNED and the course “Advanced WebCT ” for the teaching group of the UNED headquarters, among others.
