MOOCs Courses in Higher education
MOOCs offer online education to anyone around the globe. Some of the main MOOCs offered today have been started by the best colleges in the world, offering courses from their institutes: platforms/initiative, for example, udacity and Coursera (Stanford University) and edX(Harvard and MIT). These e-learning sites enable best colleges and professors to share their knowledge with the world and provide everyone to study something they have a passion or enthusiasm for. The best thing about these courses is that they are normally free, despite the fact that there is some of the time a charge to get certifications. The time taken to complete a course depends upon the subject and complexity but anywhere between four to 12 weeks. A course mostly involves a teacher and his group of teaching assistants (who are often students from the university itself). This team transfers around five videos a week and enrolled students have to a weekly assignment based on these videos. The course a...