What's the difference between moocs and traditional classrooms?

Traditional online open classes have little interaction with others. Turn on the video, and we will watch the film and the teacher's lecture like the audience outside. After the study, we turned off the video, and the teachers and classmates in the class had nothing to do with me.

However, in large-scale open online courses, we can interact with teachers and classmates. If you have any questions, teachers, teaching assistants and classmates all over the world will help you answer them. If you have any suggestions, you will also give them back to the teacher. Here, you can also meet like-minded students and become friends.

2. Time

Traditional online open classes usually take a long time. Because most open classes are recorded by teachers in physical classes, the time is basically tens of minutes or even an hour or two. For people with limited time, it is very demanding to watch such a long video at one time. Moreover, people's attention can't be concentrated for so long, so the learning efficiency will be greatly reduced.

Most videos of MOOCW courses are in 10-20 minutes. Teachers will make special recordings for large-scale open online courses, and teachers will re-prepare teaching plans and courseware. Each video is less than 10-20 minutes, so it takes care of people who have short time and are easily distracted. This will also help people to use the fragmented time such as waiting for the bus, going to school and going to work to complete their studies.

3. Start time

The traditional online open class has no requirement for class time. You can study as long as you want.

However, there is a time requirement for large-scale open online courses, and each course has a specific start time, just like the concept of "semester" in our school. After this period of time, I have to wait for the next class to listen ~ Moreover, teachers will publish a chapter of course content every week, and take one class every week, so that they can plan their study reasonably ~

4. Homework and exams

There is no such thing as homework and exams in traditional online open classes, let alone who will grade your homework.

In large open online courses, you can often see everyone rushing to the death line. This is usually before the time specified by the teacher, and everyone is rushing to hand in their homework or catch the exam. One of the links in the study of large-scale open online courses, our study needs to be consolidated and tested, and the significance of homework and examination lies in this. For them, this is a complete study.