Experiences of MOOCs and 25 year short courses for industries

Abstract

Recently, the impact of MOOCs(Massive Online Open Courses) is huge not only in terms of its numberof registration but also its wide geographical, age, and educational background. This paper introduces the courses that are related with noise/acoustics in MOOCs: its current statistics. KAIST has been offering noise related short course for more than 25 years: one is for modal analysis and another is to introduce the fundamentals of acoustics. This paper attempts to compare the recent MOOCs courses related with noise/acoustics, and others, including the conventional offline short courses: pros and cons.