Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Higher Education - Unleashing the Potential in India

The status of education has always been the primary factor of a nation that defines its academic capital, human resource and vision of development. Sheathing this education sector with the recent advancements of technology would be one of the most concrete steps towards national development. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have evolved as a new paradigm of digitized open education which could be implemented in a massive domain of India. In a developing country like India where significantly large number of people live in rural areas and cannot afford quality education, MOOCs can definitely be considered as game-changer. The authors have worked over different aspects and strategy for implementing MOOCs over the vast domain of India. In this connection, different issues haunting implementation and their possible way outs have also been discussed briefly. On one hand with a more flexible and massive approach, MOOCs would be able to impart quality education over a huge domain of audience. On the other hand it would nurture the tremendously viable business opportunity in education sector. In this context, India is viewed as a potential leader and game-changing superpower of education in Asia pertaining to Vision 2020.