The development and popularization of Internet make it possible for people to use teaching resources internationally. In the spring of 20 10, Harvard University opened the world online open class for the first time, offering professional courses such as happiness, fairness, justice and death. Since then, more than 50 world-class universities, such as Yale University, Oxford University, Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have also started to implement online open classes, and provided free downloadable open classes in official website. Online learning has become a new way for college students all over the world to study in their spare time.
What are the platforms recommended by the website of open education courses?
The increasingly popular online open classes of world famous schools have had a great impact on China's higher education, which will not only affect the teaching concept, educational model and teaching content, but also change students' learning attitude, learning methods and learning content.
I. Concept definition
1. Open class
Open class refers to the video courses of excellent universities at home and abroad spread on the internet, also known as open class. The relatively open curriculum learning portals in China are: Netease Open Class and Sina Open Class. Open course interaction means that learners can freely share, communicate, discuss and learn on the network platform, and provide each other with information and resources.
2. Open online courses
Although online open classes have developed rapidly in recent years, there is no clear definition in academic circles. As its name implies, online open class is an open class that is spread and shared by the network as the main medium.
Let more people share the global high-quality open education courses through the network platform. "Therefore, the management of online open classes has changed the traditional face-to-face direct management mode, but realized management through the operation of computers and networks, which is the essential difference between online open classes and traditional teaching modes. 3 Large-scale open online courses
Large open online courses, that is, massiveopenonlinecourses. In 20 12, top universities in the United States set up online learning platforms to provide free courses online. The rise of three course providers, Coursera, Udacity and edX, provided more students with the possibility of systematic learning. 20 13 February, the National University of Singapore cooperated with Coursera Company of the United States to join a large-scale open online course platform.
4.OpenAccess
Open access resources refer to resources composed of peer-reviewed periodical papers, academic conference papers, technical reports, dissertations and working papers. "OpenAccess" means "free access to documents on the public Internet, allowing any user to read, download, copy, publish, print and search, or providing links to these papers, indexing them, incorporating them into software as materials, and any other applications permitted by law. There are no financial, legal or technical obstacles to these uses, unless the Internet itself creates obstacles to data acquisition ". "The only restriction on reproduction and distribution, and the only function of copyright, is to ensure that the author himself has the right to protect the integrity of his work. If others quote this work, they should express their due thanks and indicate the source. "
Second, the characteristics of online open classes
1. Break through the boundaries of time and space. As long as the school puts the teaching video of the course on the network, no matter where the students are, as long as they have an intelligent terminal device such as a computer or mobile phone with Internet access, they can watch the video of the course and study at any time and place, which expands the traditional classroom teaching form to a wider field and greatly improves the utilization rate of the course.
2. Broaden students' horizons. In the past, in the traditional curriculum of the school, students could only study their own professional courses at school. Even if there are some elective courses, students can only choose some courses that do not conflict with their own courses in time, and the courses they choose are limited by their own courses. Now, with open online courses, students can choose more courses related to their majors or interested in their spare time. Some students with partial subjects have broadened their horizons and enriched their knowledge structure by watching videos of other courses, which is conducive to their future study and employment.
3. It provides convenience for people who want to learn. Some people have left the campus and stepped into the society because of work and other reasons. Due to various reasons such as time and space, they rarely have the opportunity to return to the university campus to study. With online open classes, they can use their spare time to study at home, reserve knowledge and save their strength. For those who are unable to enter the university campus, but are self-motivated and want to learn, they can also learn through these courses and expand their knowledge.
4. Existing problems. Although many websites have added columns of online open courses, which are watched and studied by a large number of people every day, online open courses are still in the primary stage in China, and there are some problems, which are mainly reflected in the following aspects: the interface design standard is not uniform, the content may be repeated a lot, the course is relatively simple, and the translation and update speed is slow.
Third, who is promoting open classes?
1. non-profit organization
OOPS: Open class project, the earliest overseas open class translation project in Chinese community.
OCWC: International Open Courseware Alliance, mainly composed of members of educational institutions, including members of other institutions and enterprise alliances.
Core: China Open Education Resource Alliance is an alliance composed of some universities in China and provincial radio and television universities.
2. Subtitle group
YYeTs Everyone Film and Television Subtitle Group: The earliest subtitle group of Justice has been translated, and now an open class translation group has been set up, which has translated more than 30 courses, and translated the open class according to the progress of one or two episodes of the existing courses every week.
TLF Subtitle Group: Choose translation courses according to the interests of team members, representing epidemiology and environmental politics and law.
OCourse subtitle group: the main translation object is science and engineering courses, and the representative work is MIT physics: electromagnetism and linear algebra.
3. sponsors
William & ampFloraHewlettFoundation:
Sponsor OCWC.
International Engineering Foundation (IETF): sponsored by CORE.
Fantasy Foundation: Sponsor, alas.
4. Commercial companies
Netease Open Class: The investment is 6.5438+0.5 million, and there are more than 6,000 courses, of which more than 654.38+0.700 courses contain Chinese and English subtitles.
Sina open class: investment of 3 million, nearly 2700 courses, with subtitles.