In recent years, the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and flipped classroom has gradually become the hotspot of reform in education globally, under the impetus of online teaching. The course of soil mechanics requires extensive pre-courses. It needs strong theoretical background, and its basic knowledge is abstract. Some content of this course has not enough preparatory knowledge; therefore, the students have great difficulty in studying this course. This paper introduce the way to re-designed and reconstructed the soil mechanics course based on the technique of MOOC and the feature of self-learning before teaching of the flipped classroom. This new teaching mode can be divided into three modules:before-class, in-class and after-class. For the reform of soil mechanics teaching, this new teaching mode can provide useful experience.