What is MOOC?

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses  available for anyone to enroll. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance your career and deliver quality educational experiences at scale.

I'd like to take Coursera. I would choose Coursera because I can get relevant skills, I can also get the necessary skills for work, and you can also get training from anywhere in the world, which is very convenient :)  Like many people, I am not looking for individual lectures, but for full-fledged courses that include video lectures with subtitles, text notes, homework, tests, and final exams. I would like to be trained.

Coursera -  is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.

Students attend courses, interact with fellow students, take tests and exams directly on the website Coursera is also available the official mobile app for iPhone and Android. the project proposes not individual lectures and full courses that include video lectures with subtitles, text notes, homework, tests and final exams.The project offers courses in physics, engineering, Humanities and arts, medicine, biology, mathematics, computer science, Economics and business. The duration of the courses is approximately six to ten weeks, with 1-2 hours of video lectures per week, the courses contain assignments, weekly exercises, and sometimes a final project or exam. Access to courses is limited in time; each homework assignment or test should only be performed in a certain period of time. Upon completion of the course, subject to successful completion of intermediate tasks and final exam, student will be issued a certificate of completion.

This is a good educational platform to improve your knowledge.

And I would like to talk about five popular MOOC platforms

1.CourseSites by Blackboard

CourseSites by Blackboard is an exceptionally robust platform. It has most of the features that Moodle has, including extensive teaching tools, reporting features and SCORM compliance. It is also cloud-based. CourseSites is a good option for individuals — for example, a teacher who wants to migrate part of a curriculum to an online format — or organizations looking to start experimenting with online courses without having to install anything . The five-course maximum and the inability to brand your course place limitations on how this platform can be applied. But with the lowest maintenance costs and the highest number of features, CourseSites is a good option.

2. Moodle

Moodle is an open-source learning management system (LMS) that allows users to build and offer online courses. It was built for traditional online classrooms rather than MOOCs, which attract a large number of students.  Moodle is suited for organizations that want a full-featured, customizable LMS. 

3.edX

EdX is an open-source platform offered by edX.org. It is the same platform that universities such as Harvard and MIT use to offer courses to 100,000+ students.

edX is suitable for organizations that want a modern, flexible, robust course-management platform. Although it is open source, investment will need to be made in both installation and some maintenance. But the return will be a platform that can provide best-in-class content to thousands of students.

4. Udemy (free version)

From the beginning, Udemy has specialized in the private MOOC. Think of it as the YouTube of MOOCs. Udemy is for individuals who want to easily build basic courses and monetize them. The platform is full of coders, photographers, designers and other specialists who offer their knowledge in the form of an online course. Udemy’s most distinct strength is its base of 2,000,000 registered students. When you build a course on Udemy, you are able to reach this pool of potential students.

5. Versal (free version)

Versal is an intriguing new platform. Its major strengths are a sleek, intuitive user interface and a robust drag-and-drop functionality. A user can sign up for free and then build a course that includes mathematical expressions, image drill-downs and many more widgets, all without any coding knowledge. Users can also embed their published courses on other websites, such as personal blogs.

Versal is most suited to individuals who want to quickly build sleek tutorials — for example, a teacher who builds an assignment for his students, or a musician who builds a short course on music theory and posts it on his or her blog.