This book aims at discussing the development of MOOCs in China in
relation to MOOCs in other countries or areas. Based on the history of
MOOCs, we summarize and compare the development of MOOCs in China and
other countries with empirical evidence from a comprehensive
investigation about MOOCs in Asian, United States, and Europe. Then we
discuss about the importance of MOOCs in China and its role in the
reform of higher education system, and the model of teaching and
learning in China. After all, we provide suggestions about how to
improve MOOCs at the national, institutional, and individual level.
In this book, we analyse and present the current construction and
development of MOOCs in China from four dimensions including platforms,
courses, learners, colleges and universities based on huge empirical
evidence from a comprehensive investigation of 14 platforms, 42
universities, 1388 MOOCs, and 22895 learners. Our investigation mainly
focused on seven topics: platform construction and operation, learner
groups, curriculum organization form, teaching interaction, learning
evaluation model, learning support service, and courses certification
and academic score system.
Based on the investigation, we found there is an emerging trend of
collaboration among government, universities and enterprise in the
development of MOOCs in China, which provides great opportunities to
build an innovative educational service system for all kinds of
learners. We also discuss our findings in relation to the corresponding
development of MOOCs in United States, Europe and other regions and then
focus on the unique challenges that China faces, such as the lack of
deep learning in MOOCs, the low information literacy and self-regulated
learning abilities of MOOC learners, the lack of individualized support
for MOOC learners, and so on. At last, this book summarizes the overall
development of MOOCs in China and other countries and then put forward
the future trends and suggestions in this field.
