再论在线开放课程对高等学校发展的影响

Further Discussion on the Influence of Online Open Courses to the Development of Colleges and Universities

在线开放课程的广泛应用将会对未来高等学校的发展产生什么影响,高等学校该如何应对,这是一个摆在我们面前的重大时代课题。该文首先提出一个假设,即用人机构在录用高等学校毕业生时只注重他们职业岗位的素养而不再关注他们是否毕业于名牌大学和名牌专业,进而指出用人机构用人观念的转变和在线开放课程的广泛应用必将对高等学校的生存和形态变化带来致命性的冲击。在此前提下,对在线开放课程的优势和不足进行深入分析,预测未来高等学校的发展变化趋势。面对严峻的挑战,高等学校要积极应对,既要积极参与在线开放课程建设,又要推进整体改革,充分发挥实体高校长处,最终实现高等学校和在线开放课程相互促进、相融共生。

What impact will the wide application of online open courses have on the development of colleges and universities in the future, and how colleges and universities should deal with it, this is an important issue in front of us. This paper first put forward a hypothesis that employers only pay attention to the quality of their professional positions when hiring graduates of colleges and universities, instead of paying attention to whether they graduated from famous universities and famous majors. Furthermore, it points out that the change of employing institution’s concept of employing and the wide application of online open courses will bring a fatal impact on the survival and morphological changes of colleges and universities. In this context, the advantages and disadvantages of online open courses are analyzed in depth to predict the development trend of colleges and universities in the future. In the face of severe challenges, colleges and universities should actively respond to them. They should not only actively participate in the construction of online open courses, but also promote the overall reform and give full play to the strengths of brick-and-mortar colleges and universities. Finally, universities and online open courses can promote each other and coexist.