This paper studies the intrinsic mechanism of MOOC innovation in higher education and its application sustainability. Popularization of higher education It is a trend of development and progress in the world, and it has become a priority for most countries because of economic globalization, the emergence of knowledge economy and fierce national competition. The pace of the massification has been accelerated by economic globalization, the rise of knowledge-based economy and the fierce competition for national power, and it has become a national policy or a goal of most countries. It has become a national policy or a goal to be achieved in most countries. With the development of social science and the social science itself becoming the object of general research, functional classification has been applied to social science disciplines. This paper gives the novel integration with the MOOCs to propose the suggestions.