PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR CREATING HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE MOOCS ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

"MOOCs have brought many possibilities for both learners and teachers. For learners, they can study from distances and search for courses that fit their professions. For teachers, a MOOC can fully demonstrate his/her research basis, personal charisma and versatile abilities. MOOCs also bring teachers new challenges that may be overlooked in traditional education processes, especially when they are creating highly attractive, high-quality courses. In this paper, we first introduce the information about our courses that each has been attracting more than 10,000 learners at a rapid speed. Then, we recall our personal experiences of creating them. Personal experiences include surveying and implementing: we survey the related attraction/quality research in the MOOC education literature to stand us high in the beginning. The implementing experience is in chronological order, consisting of the planning-and-preparation, presentation, uploading and post-course interaction stages. And then, we summarize our suggestions for successful MOOCs, concretely: the comprehensive preparation, including content selection and learner estimation, is important; the teamwork is crucial to make decisions more reasonable and to progress faster; the third is the presentation of the courses and then the first-eye attraction tricks; the post-course interactions and course updates are also important, which are factors of a persistent course attraction; the last but not least is the MOOC and education research--- A good pedagogy understanding enables a teacher to outstand wherever in MOOC or traditional classroom."