Evaluación del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de la asignatura de algoritmos, datos y estructuras de la Facultad de Ingeniería a partir de la construcción de un modelo conceptual de datos aplicado a un MOOC

Abstract

Since 2008, online education has boomed thanks to significant training paradigm called MOOC. MOOCs have been widely accepted around the world thanks to their main features: open, collaborative, massive and free. In our country, unfortunately, the use of MOOC as academic resource is limited. This thesis includes the result about the evaluation of students’ academic performance into the subject Algorithms, Data and Structures offered by Engineering School from University of Cuenca which emphasizes the design, implementation and dissemination at a MOOC. Also, there is an analysis of results by developing a data conceptual model which use generated data into the MOOC. In the development of this thesis project, a MOOC model is implemented which include the first three chapters of the mentioned subject, where it is evaluated based on a universe of 59 students who take the MOOC as a complement with normal classes, this versus 81 students that take the subject with master class. The objective of this work was to verify if MOOCs could be used as support for information transmission to students as a master class. Such that, knowledge assimilation was made by doing practical exercises, changing teacher´s role from knowledge transmitter to academic tutor by this proposal. At the end the analyses indicated that the MOOC is a valuable tool in education.