Designing Massive Open Online Courses for Culturalizing Instruction

In an era of rapidly shifting in student demographics and enrollments, alarming pace of new knowledge creation, and the need for competencies and skills for lifelong learning, the challenges we face are a historic opportunity to be innovative, creative and be able to advance ideas on education that has ever attempted in the past. Kyung Hee Cyber University (KHCU) launched a pilot Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) based on belief of designing a sustained learning community for lifelong learners. The goal of launching MOOC was not on massive enrollments or to increase the visibility of institution but to capitalize on the uniqueness about MOOC characteristics. This paper discusses the motives for designing a MOOC in a context of culturally inclusive learning environment.