Though there are a few drawbacks, MOOCs have a lot of potential for reinventing the way we learn.The Massive Online Open Courses are an evolution in education where there is free delivery of information without demographic and geographical limits, aimed at a varied audience, offering the possibility of continuous training. MOOCs can’t be used as a credit-earning course at universities Language can be a barrier while offering MOOCsĥ. Learners with disabilities and a poor Internet connection can’t use MOOCsĤ. It is difficult to keep track of students’ assignments and involvementģ. Can’t provide for personalized courseware and attention from a tutorĢ. Can be used as a tool in a blended learning program, where students can access more information than what is provided in the class The Disadvantages of MOOCs:ġ. Both professors and learners get world-wide exposure, thus improving pedagogical techniques and knowledge sharingĦ. Learners’ performance can be monitored easily using the data captured during the start of coursesĥ. ![]() Courses are available to a vast and diverse audience across the globeĤ. Access to courses offered by professors at the top schoolsģ. There are also a few other MOOCs providers, include Coursera and EdX. After the success of Intro to Artificial Intelligence, Thrun and Nrovig started Udacity, a business model for online knowledge sharing. ![]() This course had approximately 1,600,000 students participating from 190 countries. MOOCs really took off in 2012, when Professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig of Stanford University offered the online course called “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”. CCK08 had 25 students who had paid fees for the course and around 2200 learners who took the course for free. It was created as a credit course for the University of Manitoba. MOOCs were first started in 2008, created by George Siemens and Stephen Downs, and was called “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge/2008” or CCK08. ![]()
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