MOOC-Maker: three years building MOOC management capacities in Latin America

Abstract

MOOC-Maker is a project co-financed by the European Union Erasmus+ programme, developed between October 2015 and October 2018 with the aim of building MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) Management capacities in Latin America. The consortium of this project, made up of three experienced European higher education institutions (HEIs) in the field of MOOCs and 6 Latin American HEIs with different levels of experience in relation to MOOCs, has, among others: (1) trained more than 300 people in Latin America on MOOCs through face-to-face workshops; (2) offered more than a dozen MOOCs through the MOOC-Maker Campus, with more than 10,000 registered students; and (3) contributed to the debate and research in the field of MOOCs in Latin America through the organization of 6 international conferences and other dissemination events.