Since 20 12, as the product of the combination of internet and higher education, massive open online course have sprung up all over the world. This new curriculum and teaching mode has broken the time and space boundaries of education and the walls of schools, subverting the traditional college classroom teaching methods. The United States, Britain and other developed countries vigorously promote the construction of massive open online courses, and the competition for massive open online course resources is becoming increasingly fierce.

The first batch of selected courses are mainly undergraduate education and higher vocational education, professional basic courses and professional core courses, including Chinese excellent traditional culture courses, innovation and entrepreneurship courses and ideological and political courses. The selected courses are of high quality, wide enjoyment, good application effect and strong demonstration, which represent the highest level of online open courses in China as a whole.

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The first batch of courses adhere to the basic concept of "students benefit first, open enjoyment first", make great efforts to promote the deep integration of information technology and education and teaching, reconstruct the curriculum system, curriculum content and teaching mode, strengthen the interaction between teachers and students online and offline, and promote the universities in the east, central and western regions to enjoy high-quality curriculum resources across regions and schools, which has achieved remarkable results in deepening the reform of higher education and teaching.

At the same time, domestic 12 online open courses launched on internationally renowned platforms have been selected as the first batch of "National Excellent Online Open Courses", which will promote more high-quality courses of high-level universities to be launched on international platforms and participate in international competition.