Design of a MOOC course as a strategy to strengthen community synergies in rural areas

Diseño de un curso MOOC como estrategia para fortalecer las sinergias comunitarias en las zonas rurales

Rural territories in Colombia are characterized by intercultural diversity, this aspect raised a lot of challenges in the vocational training that are traditional and alternatives such as the MOOCMenTes project, this one have virtual spaces that are leverage that they have been proliferated because it make an expansion of connectivity in the country and in the transition to get Higher Education from urban to rural contexts. This article demonstrates a strategy to strengthen the community synergies in rural areas, the design of the MOOC course "Collective construction of agroecological and solidarity markets", using the MOOC Canvas tool for the design of the course, and its validation through a methodological tool of Participatory-Action-Research. In this experience, it was possible to consolidated a training modality such as the MOOCs, with a relevant theme towards rural territories, as a catalyst for the rural education.