55. What did the joint study find about the MOOCs several years ago?

55. 关于大型开放式网络课程（MOOC），几年前的联合研究发现了什么？

In fact, the New York Times declared 2012 the Year of the MOOC!

事实上，纽约时报宣布 2012 年为 MOOC 年！

As much as I like, the MOOCS are a terrible way to teach.

尽管我很喜欢 MOOCS，但它是一种糟糕的教学方式。

Anyone with a computer and an online connection can sign up for a MOOC.

任何拥有计算机和在线连接的人都可以注册 MOOC。

It uses its own online platforms, including a MOOC co-founded with Harvard University called edX, to test ideas.

它使用自有的网络平台（包括与哈佛大学共同创立的MOOC平台edX）来检验想法。

What’s just the latest incarnation of this idea came in the form of Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.

这一想法的最新体现是以大规模开放在线课程 (MOOC) 的形式出现的。

Universities are starting to put some of their lectures and notes online, some are even hosting massive open online courses also known as MOOCs.

一些大学开始把一些课程和笔记放到网上，有些甚至开设了大型在线开放课程，也被称为慕课。

But industry can help by steering people towards the skills it wants and by working with MOOCs and colleges to design courses that are relevant.

但企业界可以提供帮助，引导人们学习业界所需的技能，并和MOOC及大学院校合作设计有用的课程。

When MOOC participants were required to write down their plans for undertaking a course, for example, they were 29% more likely to complete the course than a control group who did not have to do so.

比如，在要求MOOC学员写下自己对于课程的计划后，他们的课程完成率比没有此类要求的对照组提升了29%。

Like I have one idea. One idea I have is that we're starting to see it a little bit with MOOCs but there's no reason that you can't take a class at any other university via video from your university.

我有个想法。可以先从网络公开课开始，没有理由在大学不能通过视频来上课。