The Essence and Future of Massive Open Online Courses

Abstract

As a new thing that is springing up in recent years, massive open online courses (MOOC) have become popular in students of universities and colleges. Since learners can reach high quality courses from famous lecturers of top universities over the world, MOOC has become a kind of supplementary provision to the traditional education. The introduction of MOOC does not mean the replacement of teacher's role. Instead, teachers have more time and energy to communicate with students, helping students to shape the hearts and promote the mature of human nature. Systems for credit recognition and teaching evaluation should be established, which would help teachers and administrators to improve teaching programs and teaching quality.