MOOC，a massive open online course， (aim)at providing large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web．MOOCs first made waves in the fall of 2011，when Professor Sebastian Thrun from Stanford University opened his graduate-level artificial   (intelligent)course up to any student anywhere，and 160，000 students in more than 190 countries   (sign)up．This new kind    online classes is shaking up the higher education worid in many ways．Since the courses can be taken by hundreds of thousands of students at the same time.  number of universities might decrease dramatically．Perhaps the most striking thing about MOOCs，many of   are being taught by professors at famous universities，is that they’re free．This is   (certain)good news for cash-strapped students．
There is a lot of excitement and fear surrounding MOOCs．While some say free online courses are a great way     (increase)the enrollment of minority students，others have said they will leave many students behind．Some critics have said that MOOts promote an unrealistic one-size-fits-all model of higher education  that there is no replacement for true dialogues between professors and their students．After all，a brain is not a computer．We are not blank hard drives  (wait)to be filled with data．People learn from people they love and remember the things that arouse emotion．