What is colMOOC?
The main priority tackled in the colMOOC project identifies that there is a need to make MOOCs more collaborative to support teachers and engage and motivate students.
Conversational pedagogical agents guide and support student dialogue using the natural language both in individual and collaborative settings. Conversational agents have been produced to meet a wide variety of applications and studies exploring the usage of such agents have led to positive results.
Integrating this type of conversational agents into MOOCs to trigger peer interaction in discussion groups is expected to considerably increase the engagement and the commitment of online students (and, consequently, reduce MOOCs dropout rate).
With the usage of learning analytics more meaningful assessment may be achieved since educators can evaluate the work's progress during each step and adapt the following steps accordingly.
Main Objetive
The ‘colMOOC' project objective is to promote learners' interaction in prototype MOOC courses by integrating in MOOC platforms a kind of conversational agent that triggers learners' constructive dialogue by posing challenging questions.

Latest News
10 March, 2021
The ‘colMOOC’ (collaborative MOOC) project is a EU Erasmus+ funded project with the objective to promote […]
23 February, 2021
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki announced the 4th run the MOOC “Programming for non-Programmers” through the […]
10 February, 2021
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17 November, 2020
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Latest Results
10 February, 2021
All the activities described in this Deliverable fall within the common framework of a Dissemination and […]
10 February, 2021
Within this deliverable, an exhaustive Dissemination and Use Plan (DUP) for the colMOOC Project has been […]
10 February, 2021
This report provides a technical description of the first version of the web-based platform for supporting […]
Latest Resources
29 January, 2021
19 June, 2019
Dissemination material: Smart and collaborative learning Roll up teachers Download