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‘Federica’s MOOC’ (Massive Open Online Course): a blended course in engineering drawing at Federico II

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The key findings about the use of a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) at University of Naples Federico II are shown. In particular, the Engineering Drawing course for Industrial Engineering students was the pilot to evaluate the benefits of new Web-Based Platforms and Environments in higher education. The combination of In-Class and On-Line lessons is defined “Blended Course” and can be attended by students both in traditional classrooms and On-Line. It was provided during the last four academic years allowing the use of new tools (e.g., multimedia contents, interactive files). Thanks to about 7000 students involved in this project, several data were gathered for statistics and analysis purposes. Therefore, the access to the MOOC was monitored and the correlation with the homework was examined. At the end of the course, the level of satisfaction of the students about the interaction with the new platform was evaluated. The analysis of the results provided useful hints for the updating of the course in order to improve skills and interactive experience.

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  1. See the Report: https://www.class-central.com/report/best-free-online-courses-2017/.

  2. A bounce is a single page session on a specified site. In Analytics, a bounce is specifically calculated as a session that triggers a single request to the Analytics server, for example when a user opens a single page on the site and exits without triggering other requests to the Analytics server during the session.

  3. Data provided by google analytics.

  4. Regarding the high dropout rates, Coursera, edX and other MOOC providers are proposing MOOC clusters that contain various mini MOOCs that can offer the same knowledge as a traditional MOOC but presenting content in a different way and tighter times for each cluster.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank: Professors Francesco Caputo, Giuseppe Di Gironimo, Salvatore Gerbino and Massimo Martorelli for their valuable help; Engineers Giuseppe Amodeo, Alessio Balsamo, Domenico Del Giudice, Domenico Marzullo, Rocco Mozzillo, Gabriele Staiano, Andrea Tarallo, Ferdinando Vitolo, and Mr. Luigi Calvanese for their technical support; Prof. E. Chirone and Prof. S. Tornincasa for the use of some images from their “Disegno Tecnico Industriale” handbook and Prof. Edoardo Rovida for his cues about the history of drawing and technical communication; Mario Lanzotti for the valued hints about the engineering of the complex inventions by the Italian comic character Diabolik and “Astorina” Publisher for the use of Diabolik images; the colleagues who teach Engineering Drawing, at Italian Universities, for their contents available on line that are largely mentioned in the course.

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  1. Fraunhofer JL Ideas - Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Antonio Lanzotti, Stefano Papa, Stanislao Patalano & Fabrizio Renno

  2. Center of Ateneo Federica Web-Learning, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Mauro Calise & Maddalena Molaro

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Lanzotti, A., Calise, M., Molaro, M. et al. ‘Federica’s MOOC’ (Massive Open Online Course): a blended course in engineering drawing at Federico II. Int J Interact Des Manuf 13, 1115–1128 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-019-00575-6

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