MOOC on a Bachelor's degree final project (TFG): Prototyping and design

This paper deals with a didactic project that includes the design of a brief online course as a massive open online course (MOOC) aimed at large-scale interactive participation. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, it provides interactive-user forums that help build a community for large groups. On this purpose, the current paper attempts to show how this type of short courses can support tertiary education. One of the goals of the present MOOC is to help students to write their Bachelor’s Degree Final Project (TFG), following a scaffolding strategy on a step-to-step account (Da Cunha, 2016; Cargill & Connor, 2016). A total of 1422 students from a Spanish distance education university (UNED) took the course in its first edition in March 2021.  The course evaluation survey draws the conclusion that the scaffolding strategy followed in most of the video recordings fulfilled participants’ expectations.