Most Popular Global Online Courses in India

 With India warming up for online education, many of the students here are flocking to reputed international online education providers. The reasons are obvious: more industry recognition, access to latest information in the chosen field, quality of educational content, engagement and access to the renowned faculty members and resources.

1. The MOOCs (massive open online courses)

As the name suggests, it's the biggest body of online education providers in the US, with several universities and independent educational institutions offering numerous online education programs for both American and foreign students. It allows you interactive participation using the web. As far as Indian students are concerned, it's the biggest attraction at the moment, as increasing tuition, high cost of living and visa restrictions are hampering middle class students in India to approach US colleges. Over three lakh (3, 00,000) Indian students have joined online courses at MOOCs in just a couple of months this year.

Some attractive features of MOOCs are:

· Reduced entry barriers to invite more and more students
· Education from top universities (that too virtually free of cost sometimes)
· Renowned faculty from reputed institutes and universities
· Much less fee than the campus programs of the US universities

2. Khan Academy; the storehouse of casual learning

Khan Academy was launched incidentally by an Indian Harvard graduate, Salman Khan. This is an interesting story. One day, Salman was approached by his niece Nadia, who happened to be in another US city at the time, to explain some topics from her curriculum, through the Internet. During this session, he came up with the idea of launching YouTube videos with the course content on a large-scale, so that she and other such students can watch them as per their convenience. YouTube was chosen as it's a public platform and students can watch these videos as many times as they want. They can pause or repeat the videos, whenever they need it. This resulted into the establishment of Khan Academy. At present, Khan Academy is a leading online education provider in the US and overseas.

3. Coursera

Coursera is also highly popular American online education provider in India and overseas. It was founded by the Stanford University computer science professors. It has following features:

· More than 300 online courses in different subjects in engineering, humanities, medicine and mathematics
· Over one million students registered in different online courses; most of them from overseas
· 62% of Coursera online students from Brazil, India and China
· 62 participating universities from around the world, which design the curriculum of online courses
· Participant universities include the University of Michigan, Princeton University, Duke and the University of Edinburgh
· Ideal for formal higher education post regular college and to attain cross functional expertise to enhance employability
· Hundreds of thousands of Indian students already registered and it contributes towards effective networking and collaboration in studies
· Enhances the job prospects in the international market
· Enhances the chances of getting admission in leading American and European universities and colleges.
· Spreads quality education by reaching out to distance learners in various countries and offers them quality education without having to leave their regular employment and location


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