Attending to pedagogical principles in which the platforms are based, 80% of the MOOC platforms allow
several pedagogical models to be used to design and deliver the MOOC, 60% of them are based on a
teacher–lecture, knowledge transfer model and are based on a connectivist (social, interaction based)
principles, and 40% are based on constructivist principles. On the other hand, all External platforms are
based on a teacher–lecture, knowledge transfer model, 67% of them allow several pedagogical models to be
used to design and deliver the MOOC, 50% are based on constructivist principles and, finally, 7% are based
on connectivist (social, interaction based) principles.