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| I. Introduction
General education originated from free education in ancient Greece. It refers to non-professional higher ed- ucation, which aims to cultivate students’ comprehen- sive quality and make students develop in an all-round way in morality, emotion and reason. English literature is a compulsory course for English Majors in Colleges and universities in China. Its teaching method is main- ly traditional classroom teaching. Due to the difficulty of the course and the large vocabulary involved, many students are frustrated in learning it, so it is hard to achieve the expected effect. Recently although some colleges and universities have moved the traditional teaching content to the Internet, it is seriously lack of interaction and flexibility, which seldom produces good learning results. Professor A. S. Packard, the founder of general education in the university, believes that general education is to integrate classical, literary and scientific education and prepares for professional learn- ing (p, 1). Therefore, general education is not only an idea of university education, but also a “whole person” cultivating mode. As is known, Britain is a country with a long history and rich cultural heritage. In the long history of 1500 years, its brilliant literary achievements have attract- ed worldwide attention. There are many talents and masters in the field of literature in various historical pe- riods, and their literary works have contributed to the treasure house of world literature. According to past experience, however, most people in China will flinch at the mention of English literature, especially the orig- inal English literary books. It is a pity that they can not reach such a “peak” because of their limited English level and low appreciation ability. At present, English literature is only taught in English majors in colleges and universities. Through research and investigation, it is found that the teaching status of English litera- ture is not optimistic. On the one hand, teachers spend a lot of time and energy consulting materials for lesson preparation. Although multimedia and other teaching means are also added, the response of students in the classroom is mediocre and the teaching effect is not as expected. On the other hand, the learning effect is difficult to achieve due to the course difficulties, large vocabularies and dull classroom atmosphere. In addi- tion, from a pragmatic point of view, some people feel that learning English literature is of little significance. For non- English Majors and many others, it is even harder to understand and master English literature, history and culture in English. Therefore, using mod- ern network technology and MOOC platform to carry out general education on English literature for students can enable them to master the precious achievements of the development of human civilization and encour- |