ABSTRACT In October 2015, Korea launched its first massive open online course (MOOC) program entitled K-MOOC. This study analyzes the K-MOOC learner data provided by the National Lifelong Learning Agency. The data include the 272 courses implemented between 26 October 2015, and 31 August 2017 and the participants who took the said courses. The number of participants in the K-MOOC courses in the same period stands at 289,163. The average completion rate of K-MOOC was 9.3%. It is not far below the average completion rate of MOOCs in general, which is known to be 10% or lower. A comparison between Korea’s K-MOOC and the United States’ edX, which consists of similar courses to the former, shows that the most visible difference between the two lies in the average number of participants per course. An average K-MOOC course is taken by 1,063.1 participants, whereas an average edX course serves 15,341.5 participants. Moreover, there were 91% of participants who accessed the K-MOOC courses from their host country, whereas it was 29% for edX.

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两年的K-MOOC经验教训

摘要2015年10月，韩国启动了首个大规模的在线公开课程（MOOC）计划，名为K-MOOC。这项研究分析了国家终身学习机构提供的K-MOOC学习者数据。数据包括2015年10月26日至2017年8月31日实施的272门课程以及参加上述课程的参与者。同期参加K-MOOC课程的人数为289,163。K-MOOC的平均完成率为9.3％。一般而言，它不远低于MOOC的平均完成率，众所周知，平均完成率是10％或更低。韩国K-MOOC与美国edX的比较，后者由与前者相似的课程组成，表明两者之间最明显的区别在于每门课程的平均参加人数。平均K-MOOC课程为1,063。1名参与者，而平均edX课程则为15,341.5名参与者提供服务。此外，有91％的参与者从其所在国家/地区访问了K-MOOC课程，而edX的这一比例为29％。