Estudio de adaptabilidad para dispositivos móviles en plataformas MOOC

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are a modality of distance education with a significant impact and extension, especially in the field of university institutions. Their principles, rooted in connectivism, allow free and open access to educational content, promoting universal education and lifelong learning. Their dissemination is based on courses hosted in online learning platforms. Mainly, access is performed from mobile devices. This descriptive research, which has involved the analysis of 22 national and international MOOCs, aims to determine their degree of ubiquitous and portable adaptability to mobile devices, highlighting smartphones, phablets and digital tablets under the criteria of visibility on screens of mobile devices, responsive capacity of the contents and existence of version as App or mobile application. The results show limitations in the mobile adaptation of the MOOC platforms that limit their visibility. It becomes necessary to redefine their initial design process, and therefore their contents according to the principles of Mobile Learning, in order to adapt these courses to real learning contexts of users in mobile situations.