Multimodal Discourse Analysis of MOOC Videos

Abstract

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), as a newly developed teaching mode, is just stepping into the classes of universities and the view of researchers. There are more and more professors and famous teachers in the universities beginning to make their own MOOC, which includes recording videos, designing questions and arranging discussions through MOOC platform, so as to develop rich teaching contents and vivid teaching mode, which contributes to attracting the learning interests of many learners. Especially during the outbreak of the new crown virus, online teaching has become an essential means of teaching in contemporary colleges and universities. In this thesis, the characteristics of MOOC videos and MDA method are combined, that is to say, it chooses one MOOC-related to English teaching as the research object and used MDA to study the videos in it，so as to present the distinguished characteristics of MOOC.