April 26, 2024

Online learning and the challenge for universities

Source: www.livemint.com
In the fall of 2011, when two professors at Stanford University shared a taped version of their popular computer science course online, little did they realize that they were heralding a revolutionary new medium of learning, the Massive Online Open Course, or the MOOC, as it has come to be known. More than 120,000 students from across the world registered for their course and within 12 months, MOOC platforms such as Coursera, Udacity, and edX came into existence.
MOOCs are often free pre-recorded courses that are streamed online and are available to hundreds of thousands of students from all over the world …
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