Open platform of self-paced MOOCs for the continual improvement of academic guidance and knowledge strengthening in tertiary education

The project Orient@mente mission is to support students in the transition from high school to university. Several MOOCs are available in order to support three main actions: guidance to the University offer, automated self-testing of basic knowledge, selfpaced review of the fundamental disciplinary concepts learned at high school; all of them are useful in order to successfully attend the courses of the first year. A key feature of the project is the continuous open-access to the platform that helps students who want to attend a scientific university course. Contents are built according to educational models grown thanks to the experience and the research carried out by the University of Turin in e-learning, especially in the use of an accessible learning management system integrated with an advanced computing environment, an automated assessment system and a web conference system to enhance teaching and learning. In this paper, the methodologies adopted are discussed, the obtained results are presented and the future developments are proposed in the light of relevant data collected from the platform usage and feedback.