by JIBY J KATTAKAYAM, DNA
Massive Open Online Courses can be a solution to the challenge of accommodating millions of students on limited campuses. Online courses have introduced revolutionary changes to the higher education landscape. Students, mid-career professionals and casual learners no longer need to enrol in traditional brick-and-mortar colleges or distance education centres to augment their skills, acquire specialisations or learn new subjects. With access to course material and streamed lectures by professors from top global universities and at a fraction of the cost of enrolling at campuses, online courses or MOOCs—Massive Open Online Courses as they are called—have become buzzwords with collegians and working professionals. Coursera, the market leader, the other main one being edX, has logged over 22 million registered learners taking courses, specialisations and degrees, of whom 1.7 million are from India.
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