Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Offered by NPTEL and IIT Kanpur: An Overview
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https://doi.org/10.51983/ijiss.2014.4.2.417Keywords:
Online courses, MOOC, Academic LibrariesAbstract
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free and open online courses offered by some of the country’s leading universities and institutions including Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Stanford. In recent years, there have been a growing number of MOOCs on the Internet. This paper introduces an overview about the MOOCs courses offered by NPTEl and IIT Kanpur. And also reveals the impact of MOOC in the Academic Library Environment.
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