Professor Mar Perez Sanagustin (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) and professor Jorge Maldonado participated conducting a workshop about MOOC´s design and deploy from July 18Th to 20th in Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador). This workshop was organized by CEDIA and is framed within the MOOC-Maker project. At the workshop attended 24 persons which form part universities of all Ecuador (Universidad de Cuenca, Universidad Catolica de Cuenca, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Universidad Regional de los Andes, Escuela Politecnica de Litoral, Universidad Politecnica Saliesiana and Universidad de Babahoyo).
CEDIA is the National Research and Educational Network of Ecuador. Currently, CEDIA has an Open edX MOOC platform which aims to make it available to all universities in the network to deploy their MOOCs. During the workshop the participants realized about the reality of the MOOC initiatives globally and in Latin America, also it was shown to them the best practices to the MOOC design and development.
The participants had the opportunity to work in the CEDIA MOOC´s platform which will offer soon, it with the objective to begin to know the functionality that it has to MOOC design.