Studying in the online Age: Nutshell How to think about the future price of MOOC community

Last October, we reported that the shell began to revolve around the trend of MOOC to do something, when the shell of the thinking is due to the rise of foreign MOOC, and Chinese learners lack of a part of their own discussion and communication of the community, so to do a more front-end of the convergence of the community is valuable.

Now the Nutshell "Mooc College" has been on-line for more than a year, after a year to try the nutshell how to think about the future of MOOC community? Here are some of the thoughts that have recently been exchanged with the MOOC college team:

In one answer, Ji said, the direction he could think of in Mooc was: studying in the online age.

Generally speaking, studying abroad is for the quality of education that cannot be enjoyed at home. But in the short term, the gap of the content of the higher education at home and abroad is still quite big, the foreign content still has the superiority.

This advantage is the basis of online study. For those who have a thirst for overseas education, who have the ability to accept knowledge, but do not have the means to go out to read, the online way can convert them to overseas content users.

Who has the ability to enable these learners to achieve online study? The most straightforward answer is the MOOC platform for content, typically Coursera, which brings together a number of university courses. The MOOC College, in its nutshell, wants to explore another possibility: although it does not provide content itself, it can serve as a "two-way intermediary" between Chinese MOOC learners and overseas MOOC platforms.

For learners, its imagination is a new era of study abroad intermediary, it is possible to become their access to overseas education (hub). For overseas MOOC platform, it is to enter the Chinese market, the bridge to Chinese learners.

So at present, Mooc College is trying to broaden the MOOC learner population and attract learners who are not originally MOOC core users, and now the method is to make some small micro-courses to attract new users. On the other hand, MOOC College is also building barriers to service B. For example, they have recently established cooperation with EDX, FutureLearn and openlearning to help these overseas MOOC platforms that attach great importance to the Chinese market but do not have the ability to enter the Chinese market. In addition to subtitle translation, these help may include training teachers in the future, because many university teachers do not know how to record the course, and the MOOC community can send someone to help the teacher record the video.

In addition, MOOC College has recently tried to collaborate with Vanke and the United Nations to offer small scholarships to MOOC learners. On the one hand learners can use these bonuses to vinyl some of the cost of paid courses, and these people can form two transmission effects, so that more people through their understanding of MOOC and benefit from it. On the other hand nutshell can be in this way, the valuable MOOC learners to guide the enterprise.