The introduction of massive open online education has brought a new spectrum of challenging possibilities for expanding access to quality education. However, the majority of MOOCs currently on offer are not designed to enable and foster quality collaborative learning experiences.
learning experiences and are therefore not suitable for implementation in a formal institutional
formal institutional environment.
The iMOOC project (2013-2023) at the Portuguese Open University (Universidade Aberta, UAb) aimed to develop an institutional pedagogical model as a synthesis between a connectivist approach and a more structured approach to bridge the gap between non-formal.