MOOCs

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the courses which provide the environment of e-campus and virtual classrooms. MOOCs are available for every person who is interested in learning these courses and are accessible to their users free of cost. MOOC courses are famous among the people who want to learn or study from faculties all over the world.

Some of the national, as well as the international online learning platforms, are:

1. Alison


Alison is a free online education platform that mostly focuses on workplace-based skills. It has 14 million registered learners, 2 million graduates and 1,500 courses available for free access in March 2020.


2. Canvas Network



Link: https://www.canvas.net/


Canvas Network is an open space for educators to share, experiment, analyze, and create.


3. Codecademy


Link: https://www.codecademy.com/

Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, Swift, and Sass, as well as markup languages like HTML and CSS.


4. Coursera


Link: https://www.coursera.org/

Coursera is an American online learning platform founded by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers massive open online courses, specializations, and degrees.

  

5. edX


Link: https://www.edx.org/

edX is a massive open online course provider. It is a trusted platform for education and learning founded by Harvard and MIT.


6. FutureLearn


Link: https://www.futurelearn.com/

FutureLearn is a digital education platform. It is a Massive Open Online Course learning platform which offers online courses and degrees from leading universities or organisations.


7. iversity


Link: https://iversity.org/

iversity.org is an online learning platform for higher education and professional development courses provided by experts from all over Europe.


8. NovoEd


Link: https://www.novoed.com/ 

NovoEd is the social learning environment for online courses. It offers experiential courses from leading institutions.


9. Open Universities Australia (OUA)


Link: https://www.open.edu.au/

Open Universities Australia (OUA) is the destination for online higher education. We’re a platform that helps students explore hundreds of degrees from leading Australian universities online.


10. SWAYAM



SWAYAM is a programme initiated by the Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching-learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

11. Udacity


Link: https://www.udacity.com/

Udacity is for lifelong learners to learn new skills. It is an educational organization offering massive open online courses.


12. Udemy


Link: https://www.udemy.com/

Udemy is an American online learning platform aimed at professional adults and students. It has more than 50 million students and 57,000 instructors teaching courses in over 65 languages.





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