Open innovation and social construction through MOOCs of energy sustainability: Contributions from theoretical foundation

Abstract

In the present work, social construction practices of learning given through MOOCs as spaces for open and collaborative innovation are analyzed. Through theoretical foundation and from an exploratory approach, the main variables related to the social construction of learning in massive open online courses and different propositions about the direction and intensity of such relationships are established. The results derived in which variables are communication and interaction. The results ensure that there is a need to propose a new organizational method for the evaluation of social learning. This study may lead to future research to strengthen practices for the social construction of learning in massive open online courses, and it may also help to propose new activities that promote social learning or determine what activities can increase the likelihood of success in the social construction of learning. © 2016 ACM.