The Prospect of Massive Online Open Courses

 　　The growing trend towards online education here in China is starting to raise questions about its effectiveness, and its overall viability¹.

 

　　While more and more people are choosing to take part in distance education in so-called Massive Online Open Courses, the drop-out rate for these programs is around 90-percent.

 

　　To that end, CRI's Zheng Chenguang spoke² earlier with Lu Jingyan, Assistant Professor with the University of Hong Kong.

1 viability   

n.存活(能力)

参考例句：

• What is required to achieve or maintain such viability? 要达到或维持这种生存能力需要什么？
• Scientists are experimenting to find ways to ensure the viability of seeds for even longer periods of time. 正如我们所说，科学家正在试验努力寻找让种子的生命力更加延长的方法。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。