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MOOCs are considered an affordable alternative to higher education and vocational training, as students can complement their studies on particular topics related to their professional development and hobbies, generally free of charge. Nevertheless, not everyone can benefit equally from MOOCs. Due to the scarce personalized guidance that can be provided by MOOC teachers, it is much more likely that people lacking study skills and work habits drop out of MOOCs, contributing to increase the educational gap between those more and less educated. This paper presents the first steps towards a tool called MyLearningMentor, which is designed to guide and advise MOOC participants with less study know-how in the delicate task of facing MOOCs. MyLearningMentor aims to turn less experienced students into self-learners, helping them to plan the MOOCs as they enroll, and proposing tips and actions to achieve their successful completion. from Spain, a country that in December 2013 faced an unemployment rate of over 26%.

Those most affected by high unemployment rates are generally non-qualified people for whom accessing Higher education is a major challenge. This problem causes a growing educational gap between qualified and non-qualified workers, further hindering the latter’s access to the labor market. For this reason, and in line with authors such as Sharples et al.(2013) and Shen (2013), we believe that MOOCs are a great opportunity to complement not only Higher education, but also vocational training, and to reach less experienced learners, who now have the opportunity to receive free, high-quality training. Aligned with this …