Online mental health teaching system based on the philosophy of massive open online course

Abstract

In the multimedia era, the massive open online course (MOOC) can rekindle the learning enthusiasm of today's students. Considering the importance of mental health of college students, this paper aims to introduce the philosophy of the MOOC into the teaching of mental health courses. Thus, the author analysed the problems of mental health education in colleges and their causes, preliminarily surveyed the mental health courses in colleges, and discussed the influence of the MOOC on college courses and teaching behaviours. On this basis, an online teaching system for mental health was established, and applied to a 2 month-long contrastive experiment on college students of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, with traditional classroom teaching as the contrastive method. The results show that the students trained by the MOOC-based online teaching system achieved higher average score in psychological test than those taught by classroom teaching, revealing the feasibility of our system. The research findings help to promote and apply the MOOC in mental health education.