
YunTech Has an Outstanding Performance in a Massive Open Online Course |
Post Department:Office of Academic Affairs Post Date:2016-06-07 |
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Since 2014, the Ministry
of Education (R.O.C.) has been promoting Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).
YunTech started made its application in the same year and 4 courses were approved.
The 4 courses were “2D Animation,” “Modern Applied Psychology,” “Chemistry in Modern
Life” and “Design for Revitalization.” The number of approved courses was the
top among technological universities in Taiwan in 2014. With past experiences
and efforts on both course design and materials from multiple disciplines, all
courses for 2015 applied in the categories of new and applied systems and were approved
in the same year. The approved courses were “A Required Course for College
Students: Emotion Education,” “Philosophy in Civil Society” and “Fun
Photography” which were open to the public at no charge.
Moreover, YunTech has
developed multiple MOOCS application systems to improve already uploaded course
clips and increase the population of viewers by cooperating with different
partners. For example, the course “2D Animation” taught by Assistant Professor
Chen Shi-chang and Assistant Professor Yang His-hsun of the Department of
Digital Media Design could be watched on xuetang X by Beijing Tsinghua
University, Mainland China. The system xuetang is the biggest MOOC platform for
Chinese-speaking users. With the internet, the top courses of YunTech can be easily
conveyed to the Chinese-speaking world and the whole world as well.
Since opening, the
course “2D Animation” has been attended by more than 4,000 viewers in just ten
days. The final population of applicants was more than 10,000, showing that the
public view this digital course of YunTech’s as being of high quality. The other course, “Modern Applied Psychology,” taught by Associate Professor Liu Wei-te of Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education could be watched on CNMOOC by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Mainland China. Since its opening, the course has been selected as a course with credit hours by 2,600 students at 15 key universities in Mainland China. If counted with students who were only interested in the course rather than took it as a course with credit hours, there were roughly 4,000 viewers. |