国外高校在线硕士教育的发展现状与趋势

The Development Status and Trends of Online Master’s Education in Foreign Universities

国外在线硕士教育始于20世纪90年代,2012年起由于"慕课"的推动而获得迅速发展。在线硕士学位属"课程硕士",项目主要以在线的方式教学,具有灵活性、自主性、开放性等特征,满足了广大学习者尤其是在职人员的深造需求。对于这种新的硕士教育形式,国外舆论既高度肯定,又对其质量存有质疑。如何在数量发展的基础上提高质量,是在线硕士教育面临的首要而又长远的重大课题。

Foreign online master’s degree education began in the 1990s and has been developing rapidly since 2012 due to the promotion of MOOCs. The online master’s degree program is a kind of "coursework master", which is mainly taught online, and has the characteristics of representativeness, autonomy, openness, etc. It meets the needs of most learners, especially working people. For this new form of master’s education, foreign public opinion is not only highly positive, but also questions its potential quality problems. How to improve the quality on the basis of quantity development is a major and long-term issue for online master’s education.