| MOOC emerges in 2008, it denotes that Open Education Resources transformed into cours es, then, it spreads to our country and becomes popular in 2013. A lot of scholars groundl essly assert that MOOC will rapidly replace traditional education and universities will die o ut. But it is found that MOOC has many shortcomings in navigation bar, length of clips, te aching formats in video, assignments and so on by comparing and studying 10 courses on Coursera and 8 on edX. At the other hand, although MOOC can not replace traditional edu cation, it may make some positive influences for the reform of traditional education, for ex ample, it can be used as online resource or communication platform in the implement of Fl ipped Classroom pedagogy. At last, we further study the business model of MOOC and ana lyze it’s influences on education of China based on the results of reseachs in terms of it’s characteristics, shortcomings and business model. |