Moocs: The New Generation Learning

Abstract

Gone are the years when what we learned in school and colleges stuck with us throughout our working life. With the rapid pace of technological advances, constant learning is the most pressing need of the day. And massive open online courses (MOOCs) are adequately equipped to address and serve it. MOOCs have been one of the most hotly-debated topics in the education circles over the past few years. Opinions have been extremely polarizing, with some people heralding it as the greatest leap for education since the invention of the printing press, and some dismissing it as another fad.