Today, Massive Open Online Programmes were getting more popular at the Global Level.

1. WELCOME
TO
ALL THE PARTICIPANTS

2. Prof. GADDAM RAM REDDY
Father of Distance Education In India
SAILENTREVOLUTION
DISTANCEEDUCATION
(1929-1995)

3. THE MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE (MOOC) IS A
NEW WAY OF DISTNCE LEARNING AT THE GLOBAL
AND NATIONAL LEVEL UNIVERSITIES-An Overview
Dr.MOTHUKURI ANJAIAH
Assistant Professor
University Central Library
DRAVIIAN UNIVERSITY-KUPPAM-517 426
E-Mail: anjaiahlib@gmail.com: Mobile: +919908694950
Date of seminar: 15-16 December-2016

4. Layout of the Paper
• Introduction
• Meaning & Definitions of MOOC
• History & Development of MOOC
• MOOC-Its Features
• MOOCs at Global Level:
• In USA-2011
• In the UK -2013
• In France-2012
• In China, Mexico and Brazil

5. MOOC
Open Course Providers at Global
• Coursera
• edX
• Udermy
• ALISON
• Udacity
• MIT Open Courseware
• ITunesUFree Course
• Khan Academy

6. https://www.class-central.com/report/swayam-initiative-india-moocs/
SWAYAM WEBSITE: https://swayam.gov.in
MOOCs at National Level- INDIA
SWAYAM (August 15. 2016)

7. INDIA- SWAYAM
• Importance of MOOC
• Scope of the MOOCs Subjects
• UGC- SWAYAM
• National Coordinators for MOOC programmes
• INFLIBNET: e-Acharya
• The Indian MOOCs Provider: EduKart.com
• Libraries and MOOCs
• Challenges facing MOOCS
• Conclusion
• Suggestions

8. INTRODUCTION
• Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a
recent development in field of distance
education.
• The MOOCs are an online course aimed at
unlimited participation and open access via
the web.
• MOOCS enable learners to learn from
anywhere irrespective of their situation as
long as they have internet access.
•

9. INTRODUCTION
• In addition to traditional course
materials such as reading course
material, audios and videos,
teleconferencing and personnel
contact/counselling classes,
• MOOCs provide interactive user
forums that help build a
community for the students,
professors, and teaching
assistants.

10. Contin…..
• MOOCs have recently received a great deal of
attention from the media, entrepreneurial
vendors, education professionals and
technologically literate sections of the public.
• The promise of MOOC is that they will provide
free to access, cutting edge courses that could
drive down the cost of university-level
education and potentially disrupt the existing
models of Higher Education.

11. Contin…..
• India offering the MOOCs by name ` SWAYAM`.
SWAYAM is an Information Technology
platform which will host Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs) and
• provide high quality education on various
subjects from school level (class 9-12) to Under
Graduate and Post Graduate students--
• SWAYAM launched by our Hon`ble Prime
Minister Sri Narendra Modi on 15th
August
2016.

12. What is MOOC?
• Massive: means the large number of students
that can be engaged in an online course.
Availability of large amount of educational
material and global reach through internet.
• Open: means, `Openness`. Available for
anyone around the world at no cost, as long
as they have an internet connection. Some
providers offer optional certification exams on
a small payment. Open Curriculum, learning
resources, and assessment.

13. What is MOOC?
• Online:
These courses are
based on videos, articles,
games, social learning,
quizzes, assignments and
other proprietary
methods which can be
conveniently accessed at
anytime, from anywhere.

14. INTERNET BASED SERVICES:
•World
Wide Web
(WWW)
•E-mail
Services
(Messages)
•File Transfer
Protocol (FTP)
•Tele Net
(Remote Log
in)
•Usenet
Gopher (Text
Based
Services)
Archie
(Directory of
Services)
WAIS
(Articles
Based Services

15. Definition of MOOC
• MOOCs are courses
designed for large numbers
of participants that can be
accessed by anyone,
anywhere as long as they
have an internet
connection, are open to
everyone without entry
qualifications, and offer a
full/complete course
experience online for free.

16. MOOC-Its Features
• MOOC stands for a Massive Open Online
Course.
• It is an online course aimed at large-scale
participation and open (free) access via the
internet.
• They are similar to university courses, but do
not tend to offer academic credit.
• A number of web-based platforms (providers
Aka initiatives) supported by top universities
and colleges offer MOOCs in a wide range of
subjects.

17. History and Development of MOOCs
• The term MOOC was coined in 2008 by Dave
Cormier.
• Before the Digital Age, distance learning
appeared in the form of
correspondence courses in the 1890s-1920s,
and later radio and television broadcast of
courses and early forms of e-learning.
•

18. Conti…
• The 2000s saw changes in online, or e-learning
and distance education, with increasing online
presence, open learning opportunities, and
the development of MOOCs. The first MOOCs
emerged from the open educational resources
(OER) movement.

19. MOOCs at Global Level:
• In USA: The larger non-profit organizations
like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the
MacArthur Foundation, the
National Science Foundation,
• American Council on Education. University pioneers
include Stanford, Harvard, MIT, the University of
Pennsylvania, Caltech, the University of Texas at
Austin, the University of California at Berkeley, and
San Jose State University were started the MOOCs
programmes and they were became more
popularised in USA.

20. • In 2011, Stanford
University launched three
courses
• The first of those courses
was Introduction to
Artificial Intelligence
• The Enrolment reached 1,
60,000 students

21. MOOCs at Global Level-Conti…
• According to a Stanford University study of a
more general group of students "active
learners" – anybody who participated beyond
just registering – found that 64% of high
school active learners were male and 88%
were male for undergraduate- and graduate-
level courses and identified four types of
students: auditors,

22. • In January 2013, Udacity launched its first
MOOCs-for-credit, in collaboration with San
Jose State University.
• In May 2013 the company announced the first
entirely MOOC-based master's degree,
collaboration between Udacity, AT&T and the
Georgia Institute of Technology, costing $7,000,
a fraction of its normal tuition.Concerned about
the commercialization of online education,
• in 2012, MIT created the not-for-profit MITx

23. • In September 2013, edX announced a
partnership with Google to develop MOOC.org,
a site for non-xConsortium groups to build and
host courses. Google will work on the core
platform development with edX partners.
• Google and edX will collaborate on research
into how students learn and how technology
can transform learning and teaching.

24. • In the UK (2013): Physiopedia ran their first
MOOC Professional Ethics MOOC Course
• In China, Mexico and Brazil: From Brazil and
Mexico. Fewer students enrolled from areas
with more limited access to the internet, and
students from the People's Republic of China
may have been discouraged by Chinese
government policies.

25. • In France: Open Classrooms, which had been
offering online tutorials in IT and
programming languages since 1999, begins
producing MOOCs in 2012.
• It now offers more than 1000 courses,
focusing on technology and digital skills,
mainly in French.

26. S.no Country Percentage
1 India 8.8%
2 Brazil 5.1%
3 United Kingdom 4.4%
4 Spain 4.0%
5 Canada 3.6%
6 Australia 2.3%
7 Russia 2.2%
8 Rest of world 41.9%

27. MOOC Open Course Providers at Global
• By November 2013, EdX offered 94 courses
from 29 institutions around the world. During
its first 13 months of operation (ending March
2013), Coursera offered about 325 courses,
with 30% in the sciences, 28% in arts and
humanities, 23% in information technology,
13% in business and 6% in mathematics.
Udacity offered 26 courses. The number of
courses offered has since increased
dramatically

28. MOOC Open Course Providers at Global
• By January 2016, Edx offers 820 courses, Coursera
offers 1580 courses and
• Udacity offers more than 120 courses.
• According to Future Learn, the British Council's
Understanding IELTS: Techniques for English
Language Tests has an enrolment of over 440,000
students.
• ALISON: ALISON is a 2.5 million-strong, global
online learning community, filled with free, high-
quality resources to help you develop essential,
certified workplace skills.

29. Coursera:
• Coursera: It is a largest MOOC provider.
Currently, it has 1.3 million Indians on its
platform. The most popular provider of
massive open online courses globally.
Coursera has more than 10 million users in
890 courses from 117 institutions.
• edX - Owned by MIT & Harvard University. It’s
one the largest providers of MOOC Education
internationally.

30. MOOCs at National Level- INDIA:
• The full form of SWAYAM by IITB is Study
Web of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring
Minds. At Class Central, the first ones to write
about SWAYAM when it was first announced
back in August 2014.
• SWAYAM launched by the Hon`ble Prime
Minister for India, Narendra Modi on August
15, 2016 India’s Independence Day.

31. INDIA-SWAYAM
• The full form of SWAYAM by IITB is Study
Web of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring
Minds.
• SWAYAM is an instrument for self-
actualisation providing opportunities for a
life-long learning.
• The learner can choose from hundreds of
courses , virtually every course that is taught
at the university / college / school level and
these shall be offered by best of the teachers
in India and elsewhere.

32. • It is expected to have over 2,000 courses, 2,
50,000 hours of content, and over $30 million
paid to instructors.
• Students across all universities in India will be
able to earn credits on SWAYAM.
• Under SWAYAM, Professors of Centrally-
funded Institutions in India — such as Indian
Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian
Institutes of Management (IIMs),
and Central Universities — will offer online
courses to citizens of India.

36. E-ACHARYA

37. E-ACHARYA

38. SWAYAM WEBSITE
https://swayam.gov.in

39. INDIA-SWAYAM
Eligibility Criteria into Admission
• NO AGE. NO BOUNDARIES
• NOW NO MORE
LIMITATIONS
• LEARN ANYTIME,
ANYWHERE
• LEARN IN AN ALL NEW
WAY
• SWITCH TO SMART
EDUCATION
Video lecture Room

52. • REGISTER
• LOGIN
• SELECTION OF LANGUAGE:
ENGLISH
HINDI
Select the course:

53. INDIA-SWAYAM

55. YOU CAN REGISTER FOR MOOCs PROGRAMMES AS
• REGISTER
• LOGIN
• SELECTION OF LANGUAGE:
ENGLISH
HINDI
Select the course:

64. WORLDS` LARGEST MOOCs PROVIDERS

68. • Coursera, the largest MOOC provider,
currently has 1.3 million Indians on its
platform. I got further insight from an Open
edX conference held in Boston in November
2014. Prof. Deepak B. Phatak of IIT Bombay
gave a keynote around SWAYAM. According
to Dr. Phatak, “large scale national rollout will
unfold shortly

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