National Taiwan University will launch Chinese-language Massive Open Online Courses on probability and China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang Aug. 31 as part of efforts promoting Taiwan’s higher education sector.
“It is critically important for NTU professors to conduct Chinese-language interactive teaching with students from around the globe for the first time in MOOC history,” said Yeh Ping-cheng, director of the NTU MOOC project and associate professor of NTU Department of Electrical Engineering.
Taipei City-basd NTU is set to launch two other MOOCs on introduction to optics and machine learning, as well as up to 10 Chinese-language courses by the end of the year, Yeh said. The first two courses have received more than 10,000 registrations from around the world, he added.
Yeh and his students also developed “PaGamO,” a multiplayer online game for MOOCs. Aiming to make learning more enjoyable, the application will be used during the probability course.
MOOCs are playing a key role in the development of distance education, with providers including profit and nonprofit organizations such as Coursera, edX and Udacity.
NTU became the first local university to partner with U.S. educational technology company Coursera in February. It joins 75 prestigious education institutions worldwide, including Ivy League universities such as Brown, Princeton and Yale. (RC-JSM)
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