With the continuous growth of the number of courses and learners, MOOC provides an option for new online learning platforms used in higher institutions. MOOC is recognized as an approach that can realize highquality educational resources. By comparing the MOOC credit recognition and transfer strategies in various countries around the world, this study finds that the development stage and objectives of higher education in different countries lead to different modes of MOOC credit recognition and transfer. Among them, few of the most prominent is Malaysia's MOOC credit recognition and transfer model. Malaysia is the country with the best development momentum in the field of MOOC in Southeast Asia, and it is also one of the few countries in the world that formulate MOOC credit transfer policies at the national level. Malaysia's higher education MOOC credit recognition and transfer has the characteristics of government leadership, clear principles and quality first, which has brought many enlightenments to the development of higher education and the construction of MOOC credit recognition and transfer system in other countries. In the future, the field of higher education still needs to continue to actively explore new methods and ways of MOOC credit recognition and transfer, control the quality and standard of MOOC credit recognition and transfer, and give full play to the value of educational resource sharing to promote the balanced, high-quality and innovative development of higher education