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Teaching Business English Course: Incorporating Portfolio Assessment-based Blended Learning and MOOC
YANG Xiao, GAO Hao
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.09.008
School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R.China, 430070
Recent years have witnessed the growth of the popularity of open online learning platforms in China’s colleges and universities. This not only promotes the change of teaching concept and the reform of teaching methodology, but also provides a broad new opportunity for the teaching resource integration between universities in China and the prestigious universities in the world. However, with MOOC’s booming and spreading, educators and teachers have also found its limitations during the course of teaching and learning. This paper focuses on the design and the application of the integration of blended learning model and MOOC in Business English Course by selective use of the Open Course Ware of MIT Management School. With the advanced e-portfolio assessment as the standard for students’ achievement, it aims to reveal that the proposed model can trigger students’ study interest and cultivate their autonomous study, corporate learning as well as creative thinking ability.
MOOCs, Blended learning, Portfolio, Business English
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