Empirical Analysis of MOOCs Application in Sino-Foreign Cooperative Design Major Teaching

Abstract

In China, MOOCs have been widely implemented and deeply applied in the teaching system of Sino-foreign cooperative design majors, and have led a sustained and profound educational reform and innovation. Taking aim at this development trend advocated by Chinese higher education department, the researchers specially selected 7 samples in all levels Chinese higher universities and colleges, to deeply analyze the effects of MOOCs in the teaching of Sino-foreign cooperative design major by using various methods such as tracking investigation, questionnaire and interview, statistical comparison and so on. The paper not only systematically elaborates MOOCs advantages through combining the features of Sino-foreign cooperative design major, but also reveals and highlights its potential drawbacks and shortcomings, and simultaneously puts forward the corresponding improvement measures. It aims to provide references of MOOCs weighing utilization for Sino-foreign cooperative design majors which have been carried out on MOOCs teaching or intent to implement.

This research was financially supported by Anhui Province key education and teaching projects of universities and colleges “School running characteristics exploration and innovation of international engineer institute of Anhui Polytechnic University” (2016jyxm0091); 2017 National Social Science Fund pre-research Project of Anhui Polytechnic University “Collaborative innovation assimilation and alienation research of intangible cultural heritage protection of the Yangtze River Delta” (2017yyrw01); Anhui provincial philosophy and social science planning project “Research on the internationalization strategy of higher education in Anhui Province” (AHSKY2016D29); “International compound students training mode of Local colleges and universities in global MOOCs era” (2014jyxm43).