MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are online courses that are open to anyone to enroll. They are characterized by being massive in scale, open access with no fees, and offered online. MOOCs leverage the internet to connect learners globally and allow for open participation. Learning takes place through interaction, discussion, and collaboration between a diverse group of international students. While early MOOCs emphasized open communication and sharing, newer MOOCs offered by universities focus more on traditional course structures and assessment. MOOCs provide opportunities for lifelong learning, accessibility, and engagement through free exchange of knowledge online.

2.  What is a MOOC?
 Massive – Uses the Internet to connect with
others on a global scale
 Open – No charge for students
 Online– Learning together in digital modes
 Courses– A MOOC Covers a single topic

3. Mooc is an online learning community
for students which learning offers
opportunities to share ideas, exchange
knowledge, and work in collaborative
teams.

4.  Learning takes place in a form of
interaction, questioning, searching for
information, and discussing new
discoveries
 Diversity of learners in the community
bring fresh experiences from their varied
backgrounds ( different contries)

5.  MOOCs are built on the characteristics of
massiveness, openness, and a connectivist
Philosophy
 Massiveness. MOOCs easily accommodate
large numbers of students, around the
globe. Any one can engage easily
accessible
 Openness. Openness involves several key
concepts: software, registration, curriculum,
and assessment; communication including
interaction, collaboration, and sharing; and
learning Environment

6. Connectivism : taken from connectivist
philosophy, Connectivism values autonomy,
diversity, openness, and interactivity
(Rodriguez, 2012)
Stresses the need for connectedness in the
course through diverse opinion, students
interections, similar interest and
engagement in content

7.  the fast growing use of technologies
and online spaces which enables a
major flow of information. Students,
professors and teachers have an
opportunity to exchange knowledge,
conduct research and interact with
others online.

8.  Moocs where developed for the learners
who self-organize their participation
according to learning goals, prior
knowledge and skills, and common
interest

9.  The first Mooc had 2200 participants
signed up for it, in 2008 by Siemens and
Downes
 A while after that many universities
adopted it with new innovative
strategies to improve learning

10.  A few years later the University of Illinois’
not-for-credit course with 2,700
participants in 2011 had enrolled.
 the following year in 2012 Thrun and
Norvig’s Artificial Intelligence course
(CS221) with 160,000 students enrolled
from 190 countries (Carr, 2012;
Rodriguez, 2012).

11.  George Siemens & Stephen
Downes develop theory of
Connectivism “
the thesis that knowledge is
distributed across a network of
connections, and therefore
that learning consists of the
ability to construct and traverse
those networks”
(Downes, 2012)

12.  Increased options for accessibility,
 Increased potential for student
engagement,
 Expanded lifelong learning opportunities
 Free flow of information
 low cost or free
 No prerequisite, requirements for entry
 Online resources is used

13.  Moocs are seven to fourteen weeks long
 Self motivation and commitment
 individual instruction,
 student performance assessment,
 No physical structures
 And no human facilitator/mediator

14.  Today hundreds and hundreds of
MOOCs exist in the internet.
 This is due to interest of students in
participating and being responsible for
their own learning.
MOOC empowers self education.

15.  There are two types of Moocs: cMOOC
& xMOOC
 cMOOCs- stress the theory of
connectivism,the students engagement
on the online community, exchanging of
knowledge by online tools and
applications softwares. Participants using
the network may extract new methods
and diverse opinions for other members.

16.  xMOOCs- are taken from cMOOCs with
an addition of new institutions like
coursera and edX introduced in 2012 to
helps to prepare one for collage
requirements.

17. • Autonomy: students decide how much
to participate
• Diversity: students come from all
backgrounds, different countries, different
experiences

18.  Openness: MOOCs should be free or of
such low cost that nearly anyone can
participate
 • Interactivity: Chats, social networking,
video meetings, collaboration

19.  Operational management
 businesses today include operations in
all their departments, me being involved
in operations management course will
equip me with the necessary skills and
knowledge to fit in any business
operations department
 Course outcomes are:

20.  Learners must explain the theory of O.M
 View O.M as an enabler for
organisational strategy
 Understand sequence and processes of
O.M.
 Illustrate objectives & organisational
value
 Understand characteristics of O.M
 Manage operetions in an organisation.