It all started in 2011 when a few sought-after Stanford professors put their courses online for free.

The company, which will be completing two years in India, has tailored itself to not bring in “millions of videos” but have a more curate e...

This academic year, IISc will offer nine courses and IIMB, which is also the national MOOCs coordinator for management programmes, will off...

Flexclass is a platform which provides online MOOC platform.

Sources said preparations for getting the system ready for the ambitious project is on in full swing and it is likely to be launched by PM ...

It will also allow students across institutions in India to take up courses which may not be available at their institute and also win cred...

AISECT has launched a MOOC portal, aisectmoocs.com, to offer 2,000 free courses ranging from those based on school curriculum to skills dev...

IIMB offers 15 MOOCs on the IIMBx platform through edX, a not-for-profit online initiative of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Techno...

The official platform for massive open online courses or MOOCs, Swayam will take off only once the credit system is in place.

To increase the reach of these courses, IIMB will also make these courses available in Hindi.

Students enrolling in MOOC at DU will be given a certificate for the short-term but non credit courses, subject to approval by the varsity'...

Swayam is a phenomenal initiative by the academia and government. I see it as a major national platform where it can be made available.

While IIT Bombay and IIM Bangalore have already announced the launch of MOOCs with overseas partners, IIM Calcutta could be next in line.

India has jumped on to open online courses bandwagon with government announcing Swayam, initiative that aims at providing affordable and qu...

"Danger in India is that there is too much regulation which tends to disrupt flexibility of learning," said Levin, ex-president of Yale Uni...

"We want to embrace MOOC in a big way to increase the number of literates in the country. Institutions must become creators of knowledge," ...

The courses will be offered using the model of massive open online courses, which is globally creating an upheaval in the world of higher e...