MOOCs in China's universities: Practice, characteristics and trends

With the Massive open online courses (MOOCs) platform Coursera, Udacity and edX established in the United States, MOOCs led to a major change of education in global. MOOCs have experienced the development process of Network Course, National Excellent Network Courses, and Excellent Resource Sharing Course, HMOOCs by pushing with the government, colleges and universities in China. MOOCs are applied to course learning model innovation, intercollegiate elective credits and teachers' training. In the development process, that Chinese MOOCs show characteristics are MOOCs' localization, strengthen cooperation and alliances, promoting sharing and construction quality courses. At present, there are some important research problems, such as how to use MOOCs to solve China's educational equity issues, how to achieve the sustainable development and continuous innovation of China's MOOCs.