This document defines and describes Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It states that MOOCs are open online courses available to unlimited participants via the web for free. They provide an affordable way to learn new skills and pursue lifelong learning. The document outlines that MOOCs started with MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative in 2001 and were popularized in 2008. They allow for teaching in a video format, openly accessible content from top universities, and online interaction between learners and teachers.

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Massive Open Online Course
( MOOC )

2. What is MOOC?
Massive Open Online Course
An open online course is an online course
aimed at unlimited participation and open
access via the Web.

3. What is MOOC?
Free online courses available for anyone to
enroll, provide an affordable and flexible way to
learn new skills, advance career and deliver
quality educational experience at scate. Millions
of people around the world use MOOC’s to learn
for a variety of reasons, including career
development, changing careers, college
preparations, supplemental learning, lifelong
learning, corporate e-Learning and training, and
more (mooc.org)

4. What is MOOC?
• It started basically from MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT
OCW) an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) during 2001.
• Under this all the educational materials from its
undergraduate and graduate-level course published
online, freely and openly available to anyone,
anywhere.

5. What is MOOC?
•Widely researched development in distance
education.
•First introduced in 2008 and term coined by
Canadian Academician David Cormier.
•Emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012.

6. What is MOOC?
•First MOOC was taught by George
Siemens and Stephen Downes in
University of Manitoba, Canada.

7. What is Unique about MOOC?
•It were created from the idea of covering an
entire course online and thereby making it
accessible to everyone in the world.

8. MOOC’s have…
•Personal details
•Text materials
•Recorded lectures
•Questions, online quizzes and examinations
•Discussion forums
•Survey

9. Benefits…
• Affordable and flexible
• Better professional development
• Quality content
• As per learners’ needs
• Tremendous amount of information
• Anyone can join the course
• Can complete the course of renown university

10. Demerits or Disadvantages:
• Too much information
• Need of basic hardware
• Electricity and other technicalities
• Completion rate is poor due to lose of interest after sometime and no
physical peer.
• Problematic for visually impaired learners
• Health problems
• Digital disturbance and so on…

11. What is so innovative About MOOC?
• Teaching in a modern video format ( not just texts like those that
you’d find in other e-learning courses )
• Openly accessible learning content from top universities like Harvard,
Stanford, etc.
• Courses in a true online format ( no paper-based study materials like
those required in traditional distance learning).
• Online interaction between learners and teachers ( via discussion
forums)
• Online tests ( often resulting in certificates with the verified identity
of participants)

12. What is so innovative About MOOC?
•Providing open studies to everyone
•Flexible assessment
•Free or almost free
•Connect thousands of students
worldwide