MOOCs pedagogical and didactical approaches

The paper explores different issues and trends in regard to MOOCs pedagogical and didactical approaches applying the Group Concept Mapping methodology (GCM). Group Concept Mapping is a participative research methodology that identifies in an objective way the shared vision of a group of experts on a particu-lar issue (e.g. MOOC pedagogical and didactical approaches). Seventy-nine ideas have been generated and they were grouped in the following thematic categories: Learning design, Curriculum design, Methodologies, Learning network, Self-regulated learning, Assessment, Technology & Scaling, Participation and Organisation. The study’s results provide an empirical basis for making in-formed suggestions as how to combine the principles and instructional design guidelines of xMOOC and cMOOC.