NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN

HIGHER EDUCATION

MOOCs and Higher Education in India: prospective in Himachal Pradesh

by

B.S. Negi

Deepak Jois

Viveik Mohan Saigal

Definition

•MOOC:

A course of study made available over the Internet without charge to a very large number of people.

Oxford Dictionary

How Education is being recreated

The Internet can offer incredible opportunities for users interested in

• building their own career path

• improving their knowledge in a specific field

• or even get expertise in a totally different area

Who is involved ? • COURSERA

• 147 partners

• across 29

countries

• offering

1,876 courses

Size

Where ?

Indian Efforts

access, equity and quality

Challenges in Indian Education

Formal Higher Education

• 2000 28 lakh

• 2016 2 crore

• 2030 5 crore

Vocational Training

2022 15 crore

Shortage of Faculty

• 3.8 lakh currently.

• To grow to 13 lakh within 8-10 years

Challenges for MOOCs • University approval.

• Upgraded Technical and other infrastructure.

• Students enrolling to MOOCs.

• Awareness of MOOC’s needs to be spread appropriately using the social media sites, blogs along with traditional methods.

• Evaluation Mechanism.

Himachal Pradesh has 89.97% of the

population living in the Rural areas.

About 17% of the Internet connections are

classified as broadband capable of handling

MOOC streaming and downloads.

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