A Study on Characteristics of K-MOOC platform

Abstract

With the change of an education paradigm in the 21th century, ICT-based technology innovations represented by Smart require a change of higher education platform in the future. Recently, MOOCs, a new open education platform, have spread across the world only after two years of launch. This study investigated and analyzed functions of a variety of MOOC platforms at home and abroad. Based on the results, it extracted features that K-MOOC platform should have. With the change of an education paradigm in the 21th century, ICT-based technology innovations represented by Smart require a change of higher education platform in the future. In particular, overseas countries have recently shown an increasing interest in Massive Open Online Source (hereafter referred to as MOOC), a new open education platform from the world's best universities including Stanford, MIT, Harvard and others. Only after two years of its launch, the MOOC service that allows anyone in the world to take courses of famous universities online for free has shown an increasing number of students due to a rapid increase in the number of participating universities and courses offered worldwide. In this regard, one of the first things to consider in a growing atmosphere of participation in MOOC services by many universities/institutions in Korea is how to configure MOOC platform suitable for educational environment of Korea. Accordingly, this study investigated research trends of MOOC standards at home and abroad, and analyzed functions of MOOC platform according to standard items. Based on the results, it extracted features that K-MOOC platform should have.