Application of MOOCs in China's Vocational Education and Training: Feasibilities and Difficulties

Abstract

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are one of the most important events in the history of education in the 21st century, which not only tearing down the walls of universities, but also achieving greatly the sharing of high-quality educational resources and providing opportunities for everyone who wants to improve themselves. This paper explored the feasibilities of MOOCs in China's vocational education and training from three aspects, including national economic strategy, enterprise market competition and individual career planning. After analyzing the difficulties, such as how to select the typical work tasks, how to draw private professional MOOC plan, how to develop professional ability, and how to get social recognition for MOOCs, four approaches were proposed, including that MOOC platform and enterprises build and share the professional MOOCs collectively, getting private MOOCs plan by big data analysis technology and data mining technology, learning professional MOOCs with online and offline, adding online virtual simulation to MOOCs learning. Approaches above will enhance MOOCs feasibility in China's Vocational education and training.