关于慕课若干认识误区的思考

Analyzing Some Misunderstandings Regarding MOOCs

关于慕课的认识普遍存在着慕课革命论、慕课能实现教育公平、慕课提升教学质量、慕课支持个性化学习、人工智能与大数据分析技术作用夸大化等误区,该文分别对此进行了讨论分析,认为:(1)慕课由于内外部等各种因素,其发展还存在许多变数,应该审慎对待这一新生事物,不应轻言慕课革命,也不应该盲目推广;(2)慕课为实现教育公平提供了可能性,但在现实中更容易加深教育鸿沟;(3)慕课有可能严重降低教学质量;(4)慕课通过社会化大生产的方式提供教育产品,无法支持真正意义上的个性化学习;(5)智能化与大数据分析技术自身存在诸多障碍,难以在慕课中普遍应用。

There has been five major misunderstandings regarding MOOCs, such as ＂MOOC is a revolution＂, ＂MOOCs boost fairness in education＂, ＂MOOC promotes educational effectiveness＂, ＂MOOCs support personalized learning＂, ＂Artificial Intelligence and Big Data technologies make MOOCs disruptive＂. Based on discussion and analysis, the paper comes to the conclusion that the above arguments are not the case. （1）Better not to say that MOOC is revolutionary because of uncertainties in its development; （2）MOOCs are more likely to deepen the educational gap; （3）MOOCs may lower down the levels of instructional quality; （4）MOOCs cannot massively support personalized learning; （5）AI and Big Data technologies are difficult to apply widely in MOOCs. Some detail reasons are given in the paper.