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Exploring Contested Issues with MOOCs and MOOCs’ Practical Status in Chinese Local Undergraduate University

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been one of the most focused issues in higher education. It is heatedly discussed whether they could challenge the traditional higher education and bring disruptive transformation to it. This study attempts to present such a debate, and explore the current practical status of MOOCs in higher education, especially in the teaching context of Chinese local undergraduate university. The study finds though MOOCs have innovative characteristics and practical impact on Chinese higher education, they still have not fully demonstrated the power to cause a revolution in higher education at present. If given more time and space for development, MOOCs may have the potential to play a more crucial role. Finally, some suggestions are also provided for the improvement of MOOC teaching in Chinese local undergraduate university.

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Bu, X. (2023). Exploring Contested Issues with MOOCs and MOOCs’ Practical Status in Chinese Local Undergraduate University. In: Hong, W., Weng, Y. (eds) Computer Science and Education. ICCSE 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1813. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2449-3_29

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