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Massive Open Online Courses

Jaiprakash Singh Yadav

jaiprakash.viet@gmail.com

Abstract-

In this era of technical education massive open online courses are essential to learn with the high speed education. In this article I am showing some technical approaches, issues and importance of it.

Introduction

The basic aim of massive open online course is to create unlimited participation and open access through the web. It provides course content in form of problem sets, videos as well as interactive user forum that helps in build up a community among teaching assistants, students and professors. Massive open online courses may be developed independently by academics or they may be developed as part of contractual agreements between higher education institutions and third party online platforms.

How does it work?

Massive open online course is a standard learning activity. It is structured for a large group of participants. It contains a flexible structure because of participants can choose accordingly to their interest. Learning contents take place on public online venues in it. There is no need to go in the library, user can access contents online from any place. It saves a considerable amount of time.

Why is it considerable?

Massive open online courses have the latent capability to support institutional missions by enabling academics to engage with new and potential students, and to encourage recruitment onto courses. They can drive the international reach of institutions, including recruitment and supporting overseas activity such as transnational education. It offers distinguished collaborative and intimate opportunities for participants to collect and discuss the meaningful course content. The participants can take more benefit, which are unable to attend live lectures in colleges or universities. Massive open online course overcomes to the barriers of learning.

Scope of massive open online course

It’s a model, presenting an exciting set of challenges and opportunities among participants. It promotes expectations and the way of representation will likely crystallize and becoming more uniform and predictable. It offers institutions to explore their contents in front of wider audience and enlarge their reach into associations. In January 2013 various participants benefited in different disciplines by massive open online courses.

Doctoral- 5%

High School- 11%

Associate- 8%

Bachelors- 41%

Masters- 35%

Technical approach-

Massive open online course works upon client server paradigm. It covers the essential information that every serious programmer needs to know about algorithms and data structure, with emphasis of applications. Java is very popular and successful programming language over internet and it is widely used for implementation of online courses.

Advantages-


 * It increases the potential of participants and options for accessibility.


 * It expands lifelong opportunities.


 * Massive open online courses are object oriented.


 * It promotes time management


 * Massive open online courses provide a platform to students to bring out their talent.


 * It provides quality based rich contents.

Challenges-


 * Instructor can’t give instruction to individual participants.


 * Student performance assessment.


 * Long- term administration and oversight.

Conclusion-

Massive open online courses provide unlimited participants an open access to study materials with the help of internet. There is no time and place restriction in it. It’s a standard learning activity designed for a large group of participants. It provides its users a platform to bring out their skills and talent.