Massive open online courses (large-scale open online courses) and large-scale open online courses are the products of "Internet+education". English literal translation "MassiveOpenOnlineCourse" is a new online course development model. From February 9, 65438 to February 9, 2020, the World Massive Open Online Course Alliance was formally established at the World Massive Open Online Course Conference held in Tsinghua University, and the Beijing Declaration on the Development of Massive Open Online Courses was issued at the same time. The first 20 members of the alliance include Cornell University and Tsinghua University.

The so-called "Massive open online course" (large-scale open online course), as the name implies, "M" stands for massive. Different from traditional courses with only dozens or hundreds of students, a MOOCs course has tens of thousands of students, up to 1.6 million; The second letter "O" stands for openness and interest-oriented. Anyone who wants to study can come in and study, regardless of nationality, and only need one email address to register and participate. The third letter "O" stands for Online, where learning is completed without travel and time and space restrictions; The fourth letter "c" stands for of course, which means of course.