India’s juggernaut of a MOOC platform might be about to launch, and it has the potential to vastly improve Indian higher education — but it may not be without its hiccups.
Have massive open online courses emerged from the Trough of Disillusionment to the Slopes of Enlightenment? Wherever MOOCs belong on the Gartner Hype Cycle, one thing is clear: there are more courses and students now than ever before.
We examine how the MOOC space has grown throughout 2015 in comparison to the same data from 2014. We look at a variety of stats, from numbers of students, to numbers of courses, to the rise in popularity of non-English language courses.
Jeanne Meister of Future Workplace talks about the growing interest that companies have in utilizing elements from MOOCs to drastically improve their corporate training.