MOOCs - The Learning Driver for the Students of Higher Education

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to get the idea and to investigate the perception and awareness of Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs) among the students of higher education as in today’s era the online teaching become the essential part of learning due to COVID-19 and many other factors like accessibility, openness etc. So MOOCs are one of the emergent management solutions to assure that education is continuous and do not disordered. Here the data has been collected from the students of the higher education of Rajkot city by using the convenient sampling method. Data has been collected from 123 students and for the purpose of analysis of the data independent t-test, one way ANOVA, Cronbach’s Alpha and in descriptive statistics percentage analysis is used by the researcher. From the data collected from the students we can conclude that UG and PG students have significant difference in their purpose of learning of MOOCs and the number of courses done by them. Researcher has also concluded that the selection of the different MOOCs provider do not vary significantly among the UG and PG students.