MOOC becomes very popular all over the world within just two years. With the development of MOOC, colleges and universities are full of passion and challenges. Its emergence is an important turning point of higher education reform. In this paper, the characteristics and advantages of MOOC are summarized, and then the opportunities and challenges in the age of MOOC to the dance education of colleges and universities are analyzed, and then the aspects such as course setting, organizational model, and teachers are recognized, in order to effectively discuss the new teaching model and especially course setting in the dance education of colleges and universities.