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1. What do students think about MOOC? A study case: West University of Timisoara, Romania 12 th  eLearning and Software for Education Conference eLSE 2016, 21-22 April 2016 Bucharest Image credit: stefyheart

2. Gabriela GROSSECK [email protected] @ggrosseck (Twitter, Slideshare , Instagram , etc.)

3. https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/uvteinspira/ Credit Photos – WUT students This is a video (promo)

4. O nline Questionnaire November 2015

5. More than 800 respondents / 630 valid

6. 86,6% F / 13,4% M

7. AGE: 80,7% under 21; 10,9% between 21-24; 5% between 25-30; 3,4% above 30

8. 94,1% heard about online courses 95,1% F 87,5% M

9. 6,3% M 7,8% F follow an online course learning foreign languages

10. c urio sity / necessity of training ( 1 !!!!!!! )

11. Coursera edX DuoLingo

12. Engl ish ≈ Rom anian

13. 50%: finalized courses (1 – certificat e )

14. Satisfac ion : 8,22

15. 22% - > MOOC

16. the culture of a „serious” participation

17. 2,5 : don’t know other students / persons 2,34 : mother tongue 2,27 : weak offer

18. YES : 81,6%

19. op tions : professional training / personal development

20. A D VANTA GES 1 = To a Small Extent 5 = To a Great Extent

21. 4,38 : skills prof . dev . 4,31 : skills personal dev. 4,02 : daily abilities 3,01 : short period 3,14 : formal educational level 3,24 : diversit y

22. D IS A D VANTA G E S 3,24 : formal recognition 3,01 : employee’s recognition 2,73 : language

23. „ POSITIVE ” D I S A D VANTA G E S 1,93 : mistrust 2,04 : lack of interactions 2,34 : trainers’ guidance

24. X a C ULTUR E of „ continuous training ”

25. „SERIOUS” ACTIVITIES t raditional courses

26. X f 2f interactions continuous guidance

27. X d is a d vanta g e s O avanta g e s

28. CONCLU SIONS ??

29. FIRST YEAR STUDENTS

30. ~ „ro undness ” of professional luggage

31. - „ valuable ” add-ons -> credits / certifications

32. TIM E for studies

33. X engagement culture online activities without a formal „ remuneration/ remittance ”

34. p otential grow of online participation A wall which connects people

35. „ the one ne x t to you ”

36. MOOC?? YESsssssssss

37. This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2040: NOVAMOOC – Development and innovative implementation of MOOCs in Higher Education The NOVAMOOC team Gabriela GROSSECK Laura MALIȚA Vlad CHIRIAC Ramona BRAN Laurențiu ȚÎRU Carmen HOLOTESCU Mihai ViLCEA Alex TOPÂRCEANU Dorin NEAGOE