ABSTRACT

Online classes have so rapidly expanded in Japanese universities as a result of the Covid-19 shock in 2020. Although this shift opens many possibilities in the university education including the participation of students who have small kids, disabilities, and reasons they cannot come to the university campus, we still need to think about the difference between the small scale interactive style class and the large scale on-demand delivery style class. The most important part of the online class is the sharing of time. However, in the online class of delivery type, the learning time itself is not shared, and the students can access the lectures at any time. In online lectures where space and time are not shared, there should be artificial mechanisms to share the context that establishes the questions in a different way than physically given. In this paper, I discuss MOOC (massive online open courseware) and Minerva University as the two prominent challenges of online education today. And I also discuss the historical positionality of university as a crossroad of different intellectuals and students of different cultural backgrounds in the long waves of globalization and pandemics.

摘要

由于2020年的Covid-19冲击，日本大学的在线课程如此迅速地扩展。尽管这种转变为大学教育提供了许多可能性，包括有小孩，残疾学生以及他们无法上学的原因。在大学校园中，我们仍然需要考虑小规模的交互风格课程和大规模的按需交付风格课程之间的区别。在线课程中最重要的部分是时间共享。但是，在在线授课形式的课堂中，学习时间本身是不共享的，学生可以随时访问讲座。在不共享空间和时间的在线讲座中，应该使用人为机制来共享以与物理方式不同的方式建立问题的上下文。在本文中，我将讨论MOOC（大规模在线开放课件）和密涅瓦大学，这是当今在线教育的两个主要挑战。我还讨论了大学在长期全球化和流行病浪潮中作为不同知识分子和不同文化背景的学生的十字路口的历史地位。