moocs

Moocs have been used to help position institutions while also attracting students.

Mooc已被用于帮助定位机构的角色，同时也在吸引学生。

Still, there is one characteristic that marks all MOOCS: they are available to anyone.

不过，所有MOOC都具备一个显著特征：面向所有人。

There is now similar anxiety about a revolution in higher education, as massive open online courses, or MOOCs, proliferate.

如今，随着大规模在线公开课程（MOOC）的激增，高等教育界也出现了类似的担忧。

China is committed to further opening up its MOOC resources and sharing its quality education resources with other countries and regions, Education Minister Chen Baosheng said the conference. The country now ranks first globally in the number of MOOCs and viewers, he said.

教育部部长陈宝生表示，目前，中国慕课数量和应用规模已居世界第一。他指出，中国致力于进一步开放其慕课资源，并与其他国家和地区共享优质教育资源。

So today, I want to discuss a different aspect, the other side of MOOCs, take a different perspective.

所以今天，我想以一个不一样的视角讨论网络公开课的另一面。

It has been claimed that business schools are motivated to develop Moocs to provide access to education in the developing world and to under-represented groups elsewhere.

有人声称，商学院开发Mooc的动机是为发展中世界以及其他地区的少数群体提供教育机会。

Ensuring the quality of the Moocs learning experience, and of student achievement, remains a major concern.

如何确保Mooc学习经历和学生成绩的质量，仍是人们目前关心的一大问题。

The unique advantages of MOOCs and online education have been leveraged and sharing of quality educational resources so that everyone can learn whenever and wherever they want, Chen said.

慕课和在线教育的独特优势得以充分利用来推动教育公平及优质教育资源共享，实现人人皆学、处处能学、时时可学。

The past few years have seen an exponential increase in the number of Moocs ( massive open online courses).

近些年来，大型网络公开课（Massive Open Online Courses，简称Mooc）数量大幅增长。

Tests can be proctored, but many MOOCS rely on the honor system.

考试可以在监督下进行，但许多MOOC依靠信用制度。

MOOCs have democratized education globally ( provided you have an Internet connection).

MOOC促进了全球的教育民主化进程（只要你连接上了互联网）。

Often produced by well-known colleges or universities, MOOCs are frequently hosted on third party commercial platforms.

MOOC在线学习平台通常是由著名学府制作，并借助第三方商业网络平台加以推广的。

By bringing high-quality college and graduate-level MOOCS to a wider audience, these platforms could help provide life-long learning opportunities.

这些平台让更多的人能够聆听高质量的本科和研究生大型在线公开课，为人们终身学习提供机会。

Top students get letters their work. Mr. Thrun started Udacity, which supports free MOOCs. Udacity hopes to make a profit in the future by connecting possible employers with interested students. On his Stanford homepage he says he wants to "democratize" education.

Thrun创办了支持免费在线课程的Udacit网站，希望将来把潜在雇主与有意向的学生联系起来，从而从中获利。

MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses) are the latest addition to the acronym-bound lexicon1 of higher education, and quite possibly the most significant of them all.

MOOC（网络公开课）是高等教育相关缩写词汇中的新成员，也可能是所有词汇中最具影响力的一个。

As Moocs evolved, however, it became apparent that as few as three per cent of students signing up to courses would complete them.

不过，随着慕课的发展，人们发现，在报名参加慕课的学生中，似乎只有3%能完成课程学习。

Now, in this discussion today, I'm going to focus on a different aspect of MOOCs.

在接下来的讨论中，我会将话题集中在网络公开课的另一面。

MOOCS an acronym for massive open online courses are courses that can be accessed globally over the Internet.

MOOC是“大规模开放式在线课程”的英文首字母缩写，意指可以在全球各地通过互联网访问的课程。

Although professors deliver content through videos and PowerPoint in MOOCS, many engage with students on message boards in realtime ( and even keep office hours for online students).

尽管MOOC的教授主要通过视频和PPT文件授课，但许多教授也在留言板上跟学生实时互动，甚至还为在线学生专门留出了一部分上班时间。

You may be familiar with massive open online courses ( MOOCs) delivered by professors from prestigious universities.

名校教授大型网络公开课（又被称为慕课）你可能已经很熟悉了。

He cites Edinburgh's first six Moocs, delivered on Coursera, that are each only five weeks long.

他拿爱丁堡大学在Coursera上推出的首批6门Mooc课程举例，每门课程的时长仅为五周。

MOOCs have become highly popular in the last couple of years in the United States, where the concept evolved.

MOOC在线学习平台的概念诞生于美国，并在最近数十年中在美国掀起了一股在线学习热潮。

Whether or not the rise of MOOCs will prove to warrant such hyperbole, there is no doubt that something very important is happening in the global system, raising profound questions about the very nature and future of higher education.

不论网络公开课的崛起是否真的会达到如此夸张的阶段，有一点可以肯定的是全球体系内正在发生一些重要的事情，并引发了对高等教育本质和将来的一些疑问。

Two start-ups, Coursera and Udacity, recently founded by Stanford faculty members to create "massive open online courses," or MOOCs, are also committed to automated assessment systems because of the value of instant feedback.

此外，近期成立的Coursera和Udacity是斯坦福大学教职人员为创建“大型公开在线课程”(MOOCs)而成立的两家新兴机构，鉴于即时反馈的价值，它们也承诺采用自动化评估系统。

Those who thrive in this less forgiving world will be savvy enough to tap the boundless resources they can get from Moocs in particular and the internet in general.

在这个不那么顺当的世界如鱼得水的人，将是那些足够明智，能够充分利用MOOC乃至整个互联网的无限资源的人。

Of these, about 120 are business Moocs.

其中大约120门是商业Mooc。

Professors Still View MOOCs Skeptically The New York Times calls 2013 "the year of the MOOC." But massive open online courses still fail to get high marks from most educators.

专家对大规模开放网络课程依旧持怀疑态度纽约时报将2013年称作“大规模开放网络课程之年”。但是大规模开放网络课程在大多数教育者中仍然没获得认可。

and therein lies a revenue model for MOOCs, where the university that licenses it with the professor

其中蕴藏着MOOCs的收益模式，那些授权使用的大学，其任课教授

It can also solve a practical problem of MOOCs, the business aspect.

它也能解决大规模网络公开课在其商业方面的实际问题。

The entire universe of Moocs is open to me, and I can tailor my studies to my interests.

整个MOOC世界都向我敞开，我可以根据我的兴趣定制我的学习。