Massive Open Online Courses and Formal Higher Education

DOI

10.2991/jisem-15.2015.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

massive open online courses; formal education; higher education; teaching method

Abstract

With the rapid development of MOOC worldwide, traditional formal higher education of college is facing huge challenges due to the innovative learning method provided by MOOC. MOOC promise an effective learning method in a free style, either in course selection or the process control of learning. And the most important is that it is free to learn excellent courses offered by famous universities. For traditional higher education, the benefits of MOOC can be utilized for reference. The trackable learning process, diverse assessment methods, as well as the communitive online interaction, can effectively improve the teaching result in formal teaching and learning. However, there are still some issues to be solved, such as the imperfect online forum for Q&A, plagiarism and dishonesty in learning, and discipline limitation in course selection.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xingmin Shi
AU  - Junmei Sun
AU  - Xuejiao Liu
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - Massive Open Online Courses and Formal Higher Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 Joint International Social Science, Education, Language, Management and Business Conference
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 44
EP  - 47
SN  - 2352-5398
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