UC@MOOC: Pedagogical innovation to challenges of massification at university level in Africa

This work presents the UC@MOOC project as a pedagogical innovation to face effect of massification that are creating constraints endured at Cadi Ayyad University as well as for other African universities during these five last years. It aims among its objectives to cope with the massification and to overcome the language difficulties of students. Through this project, we are aiming firstly the reduction of academic failure and other, come to the new training needs. Courses are scripted and posted online do not require as many resources and their production cost is relatively low. The same realization is possible for the South, where we find the same problems facing the growing number of students. Audiovisual digital contents also enable us to save time, going to an hybrid teaching or even flipped classroom in some cases. The idea is not to suppress the face-to-face courses but, instead, to place teachers at the center of this educational innovation. The online posting of free contents allows students to deepen knowledge autonomously and independently. We will present the low cost economical model that has been used to support this initiative and the challenges we are facing. Some provided ideas on the critical success factors of this initiative will be described and discussed.