MOOCs for All?


I think there is need of MOOCs for all the levels of education (Primary,Secondary, Senior Secondary, Higher Education) in different educational medium(Hindi, English, Tamil , Telugu, Gujarati etc).

The main advantage of MOOCs is its accessibility, thus it can help us in addressing the problems related to Quantity. Refer my old blog-post for categorization of problems in education. It can also cater to the Quality of education provided that MOOCs are created by top schools. one such example is NPTEL, where professors from IITs, IISc and other premier institute contribute for quality MOOCs. NPTEL is focused only to Engineering courses.There is need of developing such MOOCs in social sciences and humanities also.

In my opinion, we can develop MOOCs for K-12 education as well. Schools across India differ in terms of quality, pedagogies and curriculum. We can ask top schools of India such as DPS,Chinmaya vidyalaya, Kendriya vidyalaya etc to come up with MOOCs. In this way, we will be able to provide quality education for masses.

We can also develop programs in regional languages which can help rural area students. Even the primary schools can display those MOOCs in their institutes. I believe that it will not be difficult for primary schools and other government schools to have display device such as TV/Projector to display MOOCs. Goverment schools can make use of EDUSAT. EDUSAT can be used for live lectures. Missed lectures of EDUSAT can be watched on Youtube as well.

Thus, to meet the ever increasing demand of education in India, we can make use of these initiatives for all irrespective of their level of education and mode of education.Moreover, we can increase such initiatives.



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