by Tracy ZhuChange, Women of China
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), first developed in 2012 in America, have brought great changes to people’s lives throughout the world, including in China, and have also posed great challenges to the traditional school education and the innovation of Internet technologies and services. [people.com.cn] Xiao Gu, a senior student at Shanxi University, clutched her iPad in her hands every single day at home during this year’s winter holiday. However, Xiao Gu didn’t use her iPad to watch western TV series as she had in the past, but to study massive open online courses (MOOC). Chen Jiang, a teacher at Peking University, has kept up the habit he formed in the fall semester of 2013, when his course “Electronic Circuits” was put on line by the university through the MOOC platform edX. Now, the first thing Chen does when he wakes up every morning is to engage in interactive communication with his students, answering any questions they have about the course he is teaching.
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