1 . MOOC, an open online course, aims at providing interactive discussion and open access via the web. In addition to _________ course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOC provide interactive user forums that help build a _________ for the students, professors, and teaching assistants.

MOOCs _________ made waves in the fall of 2011, when Professor Sebastian Thrun from Stanford University opened his graduate-level artificial intelligence course up to any student anywhere, and 160,000 students in more than 190 countries _________. This new kind of online classes is _________ the higher education world in many ways. Since the courses can be taken by hundreds of thousands of students at the same time, the number of universities might _________ greatly. Professor Thrun has even _________ a future in which there will only need to be 10 universities in the world. Perhaps the most _________ thing about MOOCs, many of which are being taught by professors at prestigious (声誉高的) universities, is that they’re free. This is certainly good news for _________ students.

There is a lot of __________ and fear about MOOCs. While some say free online courses are a great way to increase the __________ of minority students, others have said they will leave many students __________. Some critics have said that MOOCs encourage an unrealistic universal __________ of higher education and that there is no replacement for true dialogues between __________and their students. __________, a brain is not a computer. We are not __________ hard drives waiting to be filled with data. People learn from people they __________ and remember the things that arouse emotion. Some __________ worry that online students will miss out on the social aspects of college. In other words, MOOCs __________social interaction among students and professors even if they are offered by professors from __________ universities.

2 . Most of us associate learning with younger people — kids in school and college or recent graduates early in their careers. But at Udemy, an open university _______ online courses, Artist Anneke Camstra is engaged in the pursuit (追求) of lifelong learning and _______ her potential for teaching. She loves the _______ of gaining new knowledge and also loves _______ it with others.

She reaches countless people with her online courses and exposes them to what they can _______ on their own using animation software, such as Go Animate and PowToon. Her _______ for teaching on Udemy is “to get the _______ to the people.” She hopes people can go such a long way to make things that look _______ but still have their own voice.

Most of Anneke’s students start out thinking they’re not creative and can’t _______. Anneke understands how ________ can get in the way of so many things people dream of ________. With her five-day challenge courses, she helps them ________ the fear. Anneke loves the effect she has on her ________. What makes her more ________ of them is that they have gone from their first animation to ________ their own works.

She encourages people of all ages, ________ older people, to develop their ________ for life. Grandparents, for example, can learn to use Go Animate and make animations together with their ________.

As an older woman, ________ and having fun learning again, Anneke wants others later in their ________ to catch up with her on this journey.

4 . Nowadays, online course have become popular in many countries. There are different kinds of online courses, but most show a _______ of a teacher and students in a classroom. Students watch the video online and take part in online _______ Some coursed that are taught _______ the Internet alive. Some coursed are free and open to anyone, giving students anywhere the _______ to study at any time. Of course, watching students and teachers on a computer screen is not the same as taking part in a _______ class.

Other kinds of e-learning are being _______ around the world. In Singapore, some schools have tablets and touch screens instead of books and blackboards in the classrooms. There are also social media _______ to help the students work together on projects, and online “worlds” where the students can _______ with each other.

In South Korea, some students are taught English by teachers abroad. The teachers are in their   _______ countries and are connected to the Korean classrooms through the Internet. Instead of looking at a screen, the students interact with a ________ in the classroom. The robot is controlled by the teacher and can move around the classroom, talking with students. It is unlikely that robot teachers will ________ real teachers. But like online learning environments, they can be useful ________ .

These important examples show us that e-learning can be ________ Thanks to technology, more and more ways of teaching and learning are being developed. Nobody knows ________ the classroom of the future will look like, but one thing is for sure— there has never been a ________ interesting time to be a student.