A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online
course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In
addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings and problem
sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for the
students, professors, and teaching assistants.
Online training and education is certainly not new: we’ve been following this space since it started in 1998. Over the last 15 years billions of dollars have been spent on corporate e-learning, and much of it evolved into mandatory compliance training. Just as businesses learned to develop and adapt online learning for training, so will the MOOC providers learn to adapt more formal education for the video-based online experience.
MOOCs can be a great way to supplement formal higher education as well as to gain cross-functional knowledge. It opens up access to quality content thereby democratising higher education. over 3 lakh Indian students have enrolled to MOOCs in the last few months.
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