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

Soon after taking charge, Javadekar emphasised on the use of technology in education and asked his bureaucracy to ensure institutional geo-...

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

"Through this partnership, NIIT and edX aim to create high-impact learning experiences for learners by offering a blended learning MOOC mod...

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

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

"The pass rate used to be about 6%. But today, when people sign up for a certificate, the pass rate has shot up to 60%," Anant Agarwal said.

'Our vision is to provide management courses for young graduates, career professionals, entrepreneurs, and micro enterprises.'

IIM-B has prepared Hindi transcripts of its free MOOCs to reach out to the students seeking management education in that language.

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...

MOOCs for agri professionals were launched at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) global headqua...

Over 2.5 lakh Indians registered for courses on edX, massive open online course platform founded by MIT and Harvard University in May 2012 ...

UK Minister for Skills and Enterprise, Mathew Hancock, today launched India's first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for professional skil...

The escalating popularity of Massive Open Online Courses (OOCs) are expected to have far-reaching effects on business schools.