通过网络公开课免费获得教育(1/2)
概括：近来高等教育提出一个新的理念叫做大规模网络公开课，简称MOOC，让一个班有数万甚至数十万名学生成为可能。Hints:
MOOC
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MITx
Building a Computer Search Engine
Sebastian Thrun
David Evans
udacity.com
University of Virginia
Stanford
Google Fellow
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答疑：ldzh43http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201203/2012032508221802282.mp3A class with tens or even hundreds of thousands of students might sound like a teacher's bad dream. But a big idea in higher education these days is the massive open online course, or MOOC.
Some universities offer free, non-credit MOOCs available to anyone in the world. Others charge for courses and provide credits. The idea is still developing.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently started its first MOOC. The school plans to offer many free, non-credit courses through a project called MITx.
So far, most massive open online courses are in computer science, technology, mechanics and engineering. For example, students around the world are taking a free course called "Building a Computer Search Engine." Two computer scientists, Sebastian Thrun and David Evans, are offering this course through udacity.com.
Mr. Evans is on leave from the University of Virginia. Mr. Thrun is a Stanford research professor and a Google Fellow best known for his work on a driverless car.
There are no education requirements for the course. The students watch short videos. Then, says Mr. Evans, they take informal, ungraded quizzes after the videos each week for six weeks.
They can repeatedly watch the videos and take the quizzes whenever they wish.一个班级中有数万甚至数十万学生，这也许听起来像是一个老师的恶梦，但最近关于高等教育领域的一个大构想就是大规模网络公开课，简称为MOOC。
有的大学为全世界提供免费、无学分的MOOC，有的仍为课程收费并提供学分。这个构想仍在发展中。
麻省理工学院最近启动了其首次MOOC。该校计划通过一个叫MITx的项目提供众多免费无学分课程。
到目前为止，大规模网络公开课大多是涉及计算机科学、技术、机械和工程学领域。例如，世界各地的学生正在上一门叫“构建计算机搜索引擎”的免费课程。计算机专家塞巴斯蒂安·特龙和大卫·埃文斯正通过网站udacity.com提供这门课程。
埃文斯先生来自弗吉尼亚大学，正在休假中。特龙先生是斯坦福大学的一位研究教授兼谷歌搜索团队研修人员，因对无人驾驶汽车作出的贡献而闻名。
这门课没有任何学历要求，埃文斯先生说，学生观看短片，然后每周做些非正规、不计分的测验，连续六周。
他们能重复观看视频，想什么时候测试都可以。
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