Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) represents an interactive, massive education based on web services. Unlike the existing courses where videos, handouts, and workbooks become supplementary materials, the online public courses are characterized by the creation of a community between students, instructors, and staffs, focusing on the Internet discussion board. Online public courses are now an evolution of distance learning.

The main point of early online public courses were lifelong learning, open education and mutual ties. Today, however, if there are only a few of these features and have an open education policy, we are collectively referred to as an online public courses.

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