Massive Open Online Courses and Formal Higher Education

Abstract

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.