AN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT IN ARCHEOASTRONOMY: THE POK-COURSERA MOOC COURSE

Abstract

MOOCs, or Massive Online Open Courses, are a relatively new e-learning based tool on web platforms

integrating short video lessons, tests and didactic materials. In June 2016 the MOOC platform of the

Politecnico of Milan launched a course entitled “Archaeoastronomy: the science of stars and stones” devoted

to the general public and exported, since autumn 2016, on the platform Coursera. We briefly overview here

the context in which the course has been developed, and the way in which the storyboards of the course -

which is entirely filmed in the form of „green screen plug-in‟ of the teacher in the different scenarios object of

study – have been developed. After one year, the course has more than 9000 subscribers worldwide, a

number which allows us to perform a first evaluation of the most common student's difficulties and critical

views.