Designing Path of SPOC Blended Teaching and Learning Mode in Post-MOOC Era

Abstract

In the post-MOOC era, combining the respective advantages of traditional teaching models and MOOCs, SPOC is more suitable to apply the diverse teaching resources to small-scale and specific learners as an indispensable bridge between the traditional classrooms and MOOC platforms. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the urgent demand of long-distance online teaching had impelled Chinese teachers and students to make full use of the online teaching and learning techniques, thereof the SPOC blended teaching and learning mode had been widely adopted by national colleges and universities in China. Two surveys on the online teaching and learning platforms were carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic: a large-scale investigation on the undergraduates online teaching and learning in Beijing showed, the online learning students preferred SPOC for accessing adequate online learning resources; our online survey on SPOC online teaching and learning platforms at three higher vocational colleges in Anhui Province showed, the teachers and students held the positive attitude towards teaching mode, evaluation method, evaluation quantity, task exploration, and resource display, but learning resources, interactive platform, activity arrangement, classroom task, and communication quality to be improved. On the basis of comparison, investigation and interview on MOOC and SPOC, the study puts forward the designing method of SPOC blended teaching and learning mode, which consists of five teaching procedures of analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation before, during and after the online teaching and learning.