Telescope, a MOOCs initiative in Latin

America: infrastructure, best practices,

completion and dropout analysis

Miguel MoralesGalileo University

• About Telescope Project• The main features • Experimentation and Discussion

– Demographic Data– Student Participation– Completion Analysis– Drop-out Analysis

• Summary and future work

• The MOOCs experiences presented in this work demonstrated that the results obtained in the telescope project are no different to presented with data from sixteen courses offered by the University of Pennsylvania.

• An important fact to mention is that 96.5% would like to take a MOOC again.

• Therefore it is important to consider improving the process of enrolling in a course, it might be useful to develop a pre-selection process or pre-identification process, to identify the level of commitment by the applicant; this could reduce the real observed drop-out rate when set registration conditions.