A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials, such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive courses with user forums to support community interactions among students, professors, and teaching assistants, as well as immediate feedback to quick quizzes and assignments.
MOOCs are a recent and widely researched development in distance education, first introduced in 2006 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012. The first MOOCs emerged from the open educational resources (OER) movement, which was sparked by the MIT OpenCourseWare Project.
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is a project of MHRD created to provide quality education to students and knowledge seekers anywhere in the world from faculty in top ranking institutions like IITs and IISc for free. It provides web and video courses across 23 disciplines as certification courses.
Learn more about NPTEL at TKMCEA comprehensive list of available MOOCs can be found at: