Use of Interactive Multimedia Resources in the MOOC of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL)

Abstract

Teachers, in order to promote meaningful learning, use multiple techniques in which they use interactive multimedia materials. The purpose of this work is to identify the use of interactive multimedia resources, for this a quantitative methodology is used. We proceed to select one of the MOOCs offered by the UTPL and a questionnaire is applied that includes nine Likert-scale questions with five alternatives and two open-ended questions. The questions of the questionnaire were proposed based on the usability attributes of ISO 9126, which are: a) understandability, b) learning, c) operability, and d) attractiveness. There was a sample of 129 participants and the responses obtained after the application of the instrument indicated that operability and attractiveness should be improved; Therefore, we proceeded to modify the interactive multimedia resources of the MOOC, to then choose a second MOOC, to which the same instrument was applied now with a sample of 256 participants. The results highlight that the level of interactivity of an interactive multimedia resource influences the level of learning; nevertheless, they recommend paying special attention to the attribute of understandability.