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A Critical Review on the Inherent Problems of MOOC

MOOC(Massive Open Online Course)의 근원적인 문제점들에 대한 비판적 고찰

  • Yang, Dan-Hee (Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Pyeongtaek University)
  • 양단희 (평택대학교 컴퓨터학과)
  • Received : 2015.10.01
  • Accepted : 2015.12.20
  • Published : 2015.12.31
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Abstract

MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is an online course aimed at limited participation and open access via the web. There is even the prospect that MOOC may break down the existing university system and open a new horizon of education. However, MOOC is going differently from the first prospect that it would threat the existing higher education institutions. So this study wishes to provide a starting point of discussion that we can produce and utilize MOOC to fit our situation of higher education by revealing the inherent problems of MOOC. MOOC is a basically online education, so that it cannot help inheriting the essential weakness of the existing one: the interaction, supervision and evaluation. The newly added concept 'massive' raises the problem of class size which is the most sensitive part in the field of education. The concept 'open' reverses a customized education because MOOC is a kind of video clips of a lecture for unspecific massive learners. As a conclusion, we predicts that MOOC will be positioned as a higher education service for very prominent learners in self-led learning ability and people who cannot access even traditional online higher education institutions. Also MOOC is highly likely to be used as a means of Flipped Learning in universities. Therefore, considering these points in the future, we need to develop MOOC to suit these targets.

MOOC(Massive Open Online Course)란 대단위로 누구나 무료로 수강할 수 있는 온라인 강좌이다. 이러한 MOOC가 기존 대학체계를 무너뜨리고, 교육의 새 지평을 열 것이라는 전망이 있었다. 그러나 MOOC는 기존의 고등교육기관을 위협할 것이라는 최초의 전망과는 다른 양상으로 진행되고 있다. 그래서 본 연구는 MOOC의 허와 실을 드러냄으로써 MOOC를 우리 고등교육의 실정에 맞게 제작하고 활용할 수 있는 논의의 시발점을 마련하고자 한다. MOOC는 기본적으로 온라인 교육이므로 기존 온라인 교육의 본질적인 문제점인 '상호작용, 감독 및 평가'의 문제를 그대로 계승할 수밖에 없다. 그리고 새로이 추가된 'Massive' 개념은 교육 현장에서 가장 민감한 부분인 강좌당 학생 수 문제를 불러일으키며, 'Open' 개념은 MOOC가 불특정 다수를 염두에 둔 강좌이므로 맞춤형 교육에 역행된다. 결론적으로 MOOC는 자기 주도적 학습 능력이 매우 탁월한 학습자들과 전통적인 온라인 고등교육기관에도 접근할 수 없는 사람들을 위한 교육 서비스로 자리매김 되고, 대학에서는 Flipped Learning의 수단으로 사용될 가능성이 매우 높다. 그러므로 향후 MOOC에서는 이 점이 고려되어 강좌의 대상에 맞게 차별화되어 개발될 필요가 있다.

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