MOOCS Challenges and Opportunities in College English Teaching Reform

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10.2991/snce-17.2017.97How to use a DOI?

Keywords

MOOCS; College English; Teaching reform; Challenge; Opportunity

Abstract

According to the requirements for college teaching reform in universities and colleges offered by the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education and the Steering Committee of the Foreign Language Teaching Committee of the Ministry of Education. Since 2014, our university has taken the lead in implementing college English teaching reform in Jilin province and even in the national agricultural universities, breaking the structure of a required course in college English and constructing a multi-dimensional curriculum system including compulsory courses, module optional courses and practical courses. This poses a serious problem for the practice of foreign language teaching reform. Since 2012, the rapid development of MOOCS has brought challenges and opportunities to the reform of college English teaching, especially in providing the platform for module optional courses. This paper introduces what MOOC is and its characteristics, and then discusses the challenges and opportunities that MOOC brings to college English teaching and summarize how to make use of MOOC to promote the reform of college foreign language teaching. 

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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