MOOCs and collaborative interaction

MOOCs are online courses, free provided by a variety of platforms in order to disseminate content to a very wide audience; they are rapidly expanding their success, so that the most important universities of the world begun to project and deliver this type of free courses. The different courses’ design and organization, and the relative platforms that support them, have been classified into two macro categories on the basis of pedagogical approach used: literature highlights differences between connectivist MOOCs (and platforms) and behaviorists MOOCs (and platforms). This paper wants to present the work design of the first two MOOCs provided by Sapienza University, analyzing their structure and the results of collaborative interactions generated; a second aim is to understand how it can be questioned the categorization originally created between connectivist and behaviorists MOOCs and to reflect on different modalities to make MOOCs collaborative