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It starts with an M. MOOC: massive open online courses.

以M开头的缩写词MOOC：大规模网络公开课。

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Will the inevitable unbundling of education through free MOOC courses and online programs lessen the need for an entry exam altogether?

免费的大规模在线开放课程（MOOC）是否将从根本上减少参加入学考试的必要性？

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And one of the world's best business schools--Wharton--offers one of those for free through a MOOC.

沃顿（Wharton），世界上最好的商学院之一，通过MOOC免费提供这些课程。

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Mooc providers such as Coursera and edX have broken new ground.

Coursera和edX等提供Mooc的机构已经走出了一条新路。

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We can also license these MOOC courses to other universities,

我们还可以授权这些网络公开课面向其他的大学，

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Some platforms encourage professors, especially well-known academics, to use their infrastructure to create a Mooc.

一些平台鼓励教授们（尤其是知名学者）利用它们的基础设施创建Mooc。

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In January of last year, the University of Virginia launched its first MOOC on growing an entrepreneurial business.

去年1月份，弗吉尼亚大学（University of Virginia）推出了它第一个MOOC课程，主题是如何助推初创企业发展壮大。

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Now that American education has entered the era of the MOOC the massive open online course the opportunity for cheating appears greater than ever.

美国的教育界已经迎来大规模开放网络课程（MOOC）风起云涌的时代，网上考试作弊现象也由此前所未有地猖獗起来。

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China is committed to further opening up its MOOC resources and sharing its quality education resources with other countries and regions, Education Minister Chen Baosheng said the conference. The country now ranks first globally in the number of MOOCs and viewers, he said.

教育部部长陈宝生表示，目前，中国慕课数量和应用规模已居世界第一。他指出，中国致力于进一步开放其慕课资源，并与其他国家和地区共享优质教育资源。

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An important wrinkle in the data: much MOOC criticism comes from faculty who've never taught an online course.

数据中重要的一点是大多数批评者从未教过网上课程。

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I explored the larger Mooc platforms and was excited to find the foundations of a complete masters in business administration, with more courses coming online all the time.

我研究了下规模较大的MOOC平台，激动地发现上面有完成MBA学位所需的基础课程，并且不断有新的课程被放到网上。

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The current MOOC offerings are mostly digital versions of conventional pedagogies – what blogger Dan Butin has called "Learning 1.0 products in a Web 2.0 world".

目前网络公开课提供的课程大部分都是传统课堂教学过程的数字版本，博客作家丹•布汀将其称为“在web2.0的世界学习1.0的产品”。

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The best of these experiences showed me how Mooc students might find a path to employment.

这些经历的最大好处就是让我认识到MOOC学生如何能找到工作机会。

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By October, the country had more than 30 MOOC platforms and 34000 such courses. A total of 540 million people had participated in massive online open courses, and 150 million university students had received credits through them.

截至今年10月，我国已有30多个慕课平台，上线慕课数量超过3.4万门，学习人数达5.4亿人次，在校生获得慕课学分人数1.5亿人次。

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At this early stage of the MOOC revolution, it is premature3 to predict the impacts on conventional higher education providers.

在网络公开课发展的早期阶段，预言其对高等教育提供者的影响还为时尚早。

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MOOC: massive open online course

MOOC：大量的网络公开课程

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Some schools have made courses available on the big Mooc platforms.

一些商学院将课程放在大型Mooc平台上。

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According to its official website, MOOC courses have assessment and examination just like a regular offline courses do.

据MOOC官网表示，MOOC拥有常规线下课程的评估和测试系统。

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MOOC, or Massive Online Open Courses, is one of the platforms where people can register for free and have access to all online courses provided by universities worldwide.

慕课，即大规模开放的在线课程，是人们可以免费注册的平台之一。通过它，人们可以试听全球大学提供的所有线上课程。

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You're taking a MOOC class, and have your appointments organized on your computer.

你可以参加网络课程，利用电脑整理自己的约会事宜。

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Together with his teaching partner, Susanne Illenberger, Mr. Springer won one of 10 places in a European MOOC production competition in June.

在Springer教授与其助教的通力合作之下，他的在线课程在六月举办的欧洲MOOC产品竞赛中获得了十佳的荣誉。

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The number of Mooc participants has also shot up.

参与Mooc的人数也大幅增长。

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Stanford's Graduate School of Business weighed in last October with a MOOC on the finance of retirement and pensions.

斯坦福大学商学院（Stanford's Graduate School of Business）去年10月份推出一个关于退休和养老金理财的MOOC课程。

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It can be hard to describe what a MOOC is.

很难用言语来描述MOOC究竟是什么模样。

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However, like any prior experience, the completion of a Mooc will factor into an impression of a candidate.

不过，就像所有先备经验（prior experience）一样，完成一门Mooc课程将增加申请人的印象分。

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Coursera and edX, leading US-based Mooc platforms, have introduced optional certification on some courses.

美国知名Mooc平台Coursera和edX已在一些课程上引入了可选的证书。

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MOOC has gained popularity in China since 2013 and some universities, including Tsinghua University and Peking University have established their own MOOC platforms.

自2013年起，大型开放式网络课程就在国内很流行，包括清华北大在内的一些学校已经建立了自己的开放式网络课程平台。

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Popular free MOOC providers, like Khan Academy and EdX, have prompted many a headline of this variety.

著名的免费MOOC提供商可汗学院（Khan Academy）和EdX等，都曾多次引发媒体类似的发问。

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He is credited with creating the first big Mooc hit, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, while he was still teaching at Stanford.

特龙因开设了首门轰动性慕课——《人工智能导论》（Introduction to Artificial Intelligence）——而受到赞誉，当时他还在斯坦福大学教书。

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The number of business faculty teaching MOOC courses has more than doubled in the same timeframe to 83 from 39.

与此同时，教授MOOC课程的商学教师数量也增加了一倍以上，从39名增加到83名。

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