TOWARDS A HYBRID UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, INTEGRATION OF MOOCS IN INITIAL TRAINING PROGRAMS: A CASE OF A BIG PRIVATE EDUCATION STRUCTURE IN MOROCCO

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For several decades, the main elements of the educational triangle of higher education in Morocco: the teacher, the learner and the knowledge very marginally profited from information and communication technologies (ICT). But with the explosion of the learning management systems as Moodle, platforms of electronic learning such as MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) and the appearance of the new mobile devices as smartphones and tablets, the process of initial training in the Moroccan universities changed a lot and in-depth. This article presents the experience of implementation of an integration process of distance learning platforms such as MOOCs in programs of initial trainings of a big private structure of higher education in Morocco for the benefit of 2000 students, distributed on eight training centers and supervised by approximately 250 teachers. The paper will handle the general concept of the issue problem, the modelling and the implementation of the process of integration, the motivation mechanisms of the teachers and the learners to pursue them during the phase of the change, the control system and the follow-up of the feasibility by the P3M (Principal Permanent Professor MOOC), conditions of use (isolated or collaborative), as well as the proposal of a hybrid evaluation system. The paper presents the advantages, interests and saving (time and costs) generated from this experience, as well as the moral and material values created through the integration of this process in trainings within the university group under question and in particular the increase of the success rate of the students.