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When the Internet hits an industry, the result is usually pretty dramatic.

Newcomers with revolutionary business models blow away the old established players. Think what happened to Kodak when photography went digital, and what happened to high street book shops when Amazon got going.

Now it is the turn of higher education. Right now this change is focused on the Mooc—shorthand for massive open online courses. Essentially these are packaged-up pieces of learning that last a few weeks, are often put together by a top professor at a top university, and are available to anyone with a computer. Enrolment(登记)is unlimited, there are no entry requirements, and they are completely free.

Mooc providers will tell you proudly that their product is not an alternative to going to university, it’s an alternative to not going to university. One of the big players in the Mooc world is Coursera, set up by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, two computer science professors at Stanford University in the United States.

About two years ago Prof. Ng decided to put lectures from his Machine Learning course online, with surprising results: “I put one of courses online and it reached an audience of 100,000 students,” he says. “To put that number into context, I used to teach 400 students a year at Stanford, which means to reach a comparable sized audience I would have had to teach at Stanford for 250 years.”

“I think Moocs have a huge potential. The technology that allows one professor to teach not just one student, but 100,000 really changes the economics of higher education,” Prof. Ng says. “Once you have created the course content it costs almost nothing to sigh up another student. What that means is we can afford to connect everyone in he world to a great education.”

29. What is the best title for the passage?

A. The New Will Replace the Old B nce Is Developing Very Quickly

C. Great Changes Take Place Every Day D. Traditional Industries Can Hardly Survive

30. What do we learn about Moocs?

A. They are usually very cheap B. They are limited to college students

C. They are given by famous professors D. They have limit to students’ number

31. Prof. Ng gave some numbers in Paragraph 5 to show ________.

A. the higher quality you Moocs B. the large influence of Moocs

C. the great convenience of Moocs D. the quick development of Moocs

32. What’s Prof. Ng’s attitude towards Moocs?

A. Unclear B. Doubtful C. Objective D. Optimistic

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