MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses): A Look to the Future of Learning

Abstract

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available for anyone to enroll. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance your career and deliver quality educational experiences at scale. Millions of people around the world use MOOCs to learn for variety of reasons, including career, development, changing careers, college preparations, supplemental learning, lifelong learning, corporate elearning and training and more. MOOCs have dramatically changed the way the world learns. They are distance-learning courses run online by many universities worldwide. Usually, they are open to anyone who registers. One single course may admit even thousands of students. It is possible to study almost any subject through this method and dozens of famous universities worldwide are now offering MOOCs. MOOC is great alternative to boost your knowledge. MOOCs are great, cheap way to consolidate learning or study new courses set up by world-famous universities, without having to leave home. MOOCs usually have no end-of-course assessment or exam that need to be passed. However, they are good opportunity to test your knowledge and see how much of what you learned and studied you managed to acquire. Instead of face-toface lectures or seminars, classes are recorded on video and materials are uploaded to the platform. The students can then access them whenever, and wherever, they want to, it is possible to view the material as often as required, so that rather than having to rely on sketchy lecture notes, you can view the lecture again.