%0 Journal Article
%T Self
%A Ourania Maria Ventista
%J E
%@ 2042-7530
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2042753018784950
%X Massive Open Online Courses appear to have high attrition rates, involve students in peer-assessment with patriotic bias and promote education for already educated people. This paper suggests a formative assessment model which takes into consideration these issues. Specifically, this paper focuses on the assessment of open-format questions in Massive Open Online Courses. It describes the current assessment methods in Massive Open Online Courses and it argues that self-assessment should be the only way of formative assessment for the essays of xMOOCs and replace the peer-assessment
%K Massive Open Online Courses
%K self-assessment
%K formative assessment
%K attrition
%K fairness
%K motivation
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2042753018784950