Technology has changed our lifestyle in all aspect: education, entertainment, business and others.In past, education assumed to be prospered on only in the presence of teacher and student inside a small cottage called GURUKUL. It was believed that the direct supervision of GURU is very necessary to impart good education over the children/student. Now the time has been changed. People are advocating towards a teacher-less class i.e virtual class. Online course is making it possible.Massive online course is getting popular day by day due to two main reasons.
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Firstly, These courses are provided online and don't have any time constraint to attend class on the web. Whenever there is a free time, candidate can log in to course and complete the lectures, assignments and other activities. It provides greater flexibility to study hours to peoples who are busy in their work and can't attend regular lecture class on campus.
Secondly, These course cost very less or sometime comes free of cost and many people can participate on course at a time. During the course, one don't need to spend any money on purchasing books, copy and pay the college fees. It is sufficient to pay small amount of money per course to get a verified copy of certificate after completion of course. Massive amount of people can take part in online course as they all are operated through the web. It don't need to set up class room, arrange bench-desk and pay for furniture etc. Simply one can connect to internet which is very chap now days and can access his/her favorite course online.
The only demerits of MOOC is that one can't feel the lecturer as vivid as it happens between student and teacher in class room.
In summary, it can be concluded that massive open online course are very helpful to the people who have no time to go for lecturer class in campus but want to broaden their horizon of knowledge.
