Providing Information Security to MOOC: Towards Effective Student Authentication

Despite the vertiginous growth and fast development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) over the last two years, there exist still relevant drawbacks that impede MOOCs to prove their actual potential for education. Among these drawbacks, we investigate the lack of provision of Information Security to MOOC, with regards to anomalous user authentication, which cannot verify the actual student´s identity to meet grading requirements as well as satisfy accrediting institutions. In order to overcome this issue, we propose a global user authentication model called MOOC-SIA.