Challenges faced by Chinese MOOC platforms and suggested countermeasures: Lessons learnt from Coursera, Udacity and edX
Hu, Tao · Yu, Zhong · Chen, Sihua

Published2015
JournalJournal of Hubei University for Nationalities (Philosophy and Social Sciences)
Volume 33, Issue 5, Pages 184-188
CountryChina, Asia

ABSTRACT
慕课平台作为一种崭新的教学平台,具有开放性、课程质量高、证书认证等特点。中国的慕课平台发展相对滞后,面临的主要困境有:缺乏慕课平台发展的精神土壤、基础设施相对薄弱、缺乏成熟的商业运营模式和制度保障等。借鉴国外"三大主流"平台——Coursera、Udacity、edX的经验,主动发力改善发展环境、创新教学模式、实现盈利渠道多样化、完善学习成果认证制度等,是中国慕课平台应对发展困境的对策

ABSTRACT
As a brand-new teaching platform, the MOOC platform has the characteristics of openness, high course quality, and certification. The development of MOOC platforms in China is relatively lagging, and the main difficulties faced are: lack of spiritual soil for the development of MOOC platforms, relatively weak infrastructure, lack of mature business operation models and institutional guarantees, etc. Draw lessons from the experience of foreign "three mainstream" platforms-Coursera, Udacity, and edX, actively work to improve the development environment, innovate teaching models, achieve diversification of profit channels, and improve the learning achievement certification system. It is China's MOOC platform to respond to development difficulties Countermeasures.

Keywords 慕课平台 · 困境 · “三大主流”平台 · 经验借鉴 · MOOC platform · dilemma · three major mainstream platform · experience reference

LanguageChinese
RefereedYes
DOI10.13501/j.cnki.42-1328/c.2015.05.038
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