Large open online courses, that is, massive open online courses. 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.

The courses of these three platforms are all aimed at higher education, and like real universities, they have their own learning and management systems. Besides, their courses are free.

In 20 13, large-scale open online courses entered Asia on a large scale. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have successively set up online courses. ?

Take Coursera as an example. This company cooperates with 33 universities around the world, including Columbia University and Princeton University. 20 13 In February, the company announced that 29 universities had joined their team.

Although a large number of open and free online teaching courses have been developed since 2000, their theoretical basis is deeply rooted in the information age. It can be traced back to1960s.

1961On April 22nd, Buckminster Fuller gave a speech on the scale of educational science and technology industrialization. 1962, American inventor Douglas? Engelbarth put forward a research "conceptual scheme to expand human intelligence" to Stanford Research Center, in which he emphasized the possibility of using computer-assisted learning.