Flipped Classroom Teaching Based on Massive Open Online Course: A New Criminology Teaching Method

摘要

Criminology is an important discipline that explains crimes from the perspective of society and is used to solve crime problems fundamentally. However, at present criminology course is facing a plight in which teachers are not willing to teach and students are reluctant to learn. There are several reasons explaining why plight occurs. Firstly, the importance of the course has not been totally understood. Secondly, the empirical teaching method cannot take effect in the traditional teaching mode. Moreover, students may be discouraged from the course because criminology as a discipline of social science is so difficult for most of them. Therefore, it is necessary to guarantee the needed conditions for teaching and scientific research by enhancing the discipline status of criminology. It is also essential to explore new teaching methods from teachers and students and promote the comprehensive development of students' learning of criminology by taking advantage of high technology.