Massive Open Online Courses

1. MOOCs
Mr.M.Deivam,
Assistant Professor in ICT in Education,
Dept. of Education,
Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University,
Gandhigram, Dindigul district, Tamilnadu – 624 302

3. What is MOOCs?
• In Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
there is creativity and the openness and it
allow the participants to share readings,
videos and activities.
• The discussion is occuring between people
that are staying far from each other. Anyone
can join mooc since it doesn’t have the
limitations in respect of whether the person
have degree or have passed grade 12

4. Main objectives
• To widen access to higher education for millions
of people and enhance the quality of life.
• Contributing to the democratisation of Higher
Education
• To access complete courses offered by
universities all over the world
• MOOCs increase access to an extraordinary
number of courses offered by word –renowned
institutions and teachers.
• To open up quality higher education to a wider
audience.

5. History of MOOCs
• MOOC is within networks that learning can
generate quite interesting experiences. This leads
us to the raise of MOOCs. The first MOOC was
launched in 2008. It was called ‘Connectivism and
Connective Knowledge/2008’ CCK8), created by
educators Stephen Downes and George Siemens.
Building off a for-credit course at the University
of Manitoba, Canada, this was the first class
designed behind the acronym of ‘MOOC’ and
used many different platforms to engage students
with the topic, including Facebook groups, Wiki
pages, blogs, forums and other resources.

6. How to use Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs)
• Since MOOCs does not have curriculum, it can
be a self-directed.
• It does not limit the number of participants
• The number of teachers or instructors can also
participate because the main aim is to gain
knowledge or to attain the certain goal.
• MOOCs can also be created by students
discussing the certain content or the chapter of
the subject in order to improve their learning

8. Types of MOOCs
• xMOOC. Is the type of the learning where by
the learners share the ideas and there is only
one instructor on the discussion
• cMOOC. Hear the learners control their own
learning, and they create their own goal. The
learners are not assessed or tested weather
they have met the outcomes that they where
aiming at.

9. MOOCs Providers – world
• Coursera
• Edx
• Udacity
• P2PU – peer to peer university
• Alison
• Open2study
• Openlearning
• Alison
• Openclassroom
• Khan Academy
• Stanford online
• FutureLearn
• Shaw Academy

10. MOOCs Providers –India
• SWAYAM
• epg-pathshala
Natioanl MOOCs Co-ordinators
– UGC
– NPTEL
– NCERT
– Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC)
– IGNOU
– NIOS
– IIS Bangalore

14. Thank you