A structural model for China’s massive open online courses from outcome-based education perspective

To achieve the effectiveness of high-quality online education, colleges and universities have developed massive open online courses in their curriculum. Guided by outcome-based education (OBE), this paper analysed online open courses from China’s undergraduate universities, then a structural model of course resource elements was constructed by using interpretive structural model. Through the modeling, the results of this study showed the hierarchical relationships, layered structures, and mutual influences among the elements of courses, which stress the importance of connection of human and material resources based on outcome perspective that fulfilling the gap of previous researches.