MOOCs: Vital Tool or Online Fad? (Learning World S6E11, 1/2)

Feng is one of a growing number of people in China who are accessing MOOCS in order to learn about subjects that they are unlikely to be able to study at school, college or university.

Every weekend, she logs onto NetEase Open Course (NOC), an online education platform established in 2010 which had 50 millions visits last year alone.

More than 20,000 lectures, talks and classes from some of the world’s best universities have so far been put online. Users watch them on their way to work, or while exercising, thanks to NOC’s hugely popular mobile app.

In just a few years, NOC has built a community in which language or government control are no longer obstacles to learning.

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