MOOC for millennial – A study of university students of

Dehradun on awareness and attitude towards MOOC

PROJECT

Submitted to
Prof. Rakesh K Meet

Submitted by:
Deepali Suyal: 180080500011

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to convey my sincere gratitude to Professor Mr.Rakesh K. Meet for his excellent
support while the making of the project throughout and for imparting me the proper guidance.

I would also want to thank to all the respondents of my primary research who took out time for
me to provide me with honest and insightful information without which my project would be
incomplete.

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 List of contents

s.no. Name of the topic Page no.

1. List of charts 12 - 17
2. List of pictures 9
3. Abstract 6
4. Literature review 7-8
5. Introduction 10
6. Research methodology 11
7. Result 12
8. Conclusion 19
9. References 20

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 List of figures

S.NO. Name of the figure Page no.

1. Pie chart showing thePercentage of the both gender taking part 12
in the primary research
2. Pie chart showing the educational qualification of the students 13
taking part in the primary research
3. Pie chart showing the hours spend by students online 14
4. Pie chart showing the preference given to online study 15
5. Pie chart showing MOOC awareness 16
6. Pie chart showing the characteristic of MOOC that would 17
interest the students

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 List of pictures

s.no. Name of the picture Page no.

1. MOOC awareness 9

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 ABSTRACT
A MOOC that is massive open online courses is an online course aimed at unlimited
participation and open access via the web. Along with the traditional course material such as
filmed lectures, readings and problem sets, many MOOC provide interactive courses.

This study aimed at knowing the awareness of MOOC among the students pursuing the higher
level of education. For that purpose an online survey was conducted to collect the primary data.
The questionnaire set to collect the primary information aimed at knowing the percentage of
people knowing about MOOC and if they are already availing it’s facility then what drives them
to use it ,whether it is it’s time flexibility or easy accessibility or world class professors or
something else.

This online questionnaire was spread across the students studying in the different colleges of the
Dehradun pursuing different professional courses to know their views about the MOOC.

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 LITERATURE REVIEW
In India ,IITs, IIMs & several top notch private universities have are already offering courses
using courser & edX to their students (MOOCs in Indian university education system: a study on
awareness & motivation among students & teachers on Indian universities).

The ministry of human resource development signed a memorandum of understanding with the
ministry of higher education, Afghanistan to work on digital education initiatives that will
include many programs developed by Indian Institute of technology. IIT Madras will also be a
part of the collaborations. The fields of cooperation include: sharing of online education
platform, named ‘study webs of active learning for young and aspiring minds (SWAYAM)
developed by Government of India, facilitating use of massive open online courses (MOOC)
available in SWAYAM platform (ECONOMIC TIMES).

Though the IT infrastructure has improved a lot in the city but the basic infrastructure needed to
implement MOOC s is still absent in many colleges and campuses (Shramistha Pramanik 2018).

India among top 5 revenue generators for coursera ( ECONOMIC TIMES).

Future performance and sustenance of any digital learning platforms inexorably coupled with
learners preferences and their better learning experiences. To provide a digital learner with
necessary curriculum, innovation courses, better interactive digital tools, personal services along
with effective evaluation will assure a supplementary learning through digital platform. This
would encourage learners to kow the real happenings in the educational arena ( DR. R.A.

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ALAMELU, DR. R. NALINI, B.MARAGATHAM, G.R. GAYATHRI, Ms.
DHIVABHARATHI : PERCEPTION OF MILLENIALS TOWARDS DIGITAL LEARNING ).

In 2017 technology giants Google, Microsoft and Intel began to tie up with massive open online
course platforms and set up their own virtual labs to offer courses on emerging technologies
(HINDHUSTAN TIMES)

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 INTRODUCTION

MOOC that is massive open online courses is a platform that provides the various online courses.
The number of the MOOC users is increasing g day by day. There are number of reasons that
contribute for the increasing popularity of the MOOC. For some it’s easy accessibility or time
flexibility is the reason to use it while for some others the lectures by the world class professors
attract them to avail the MOOC platform.

Today not the students are using the MOOC platform but the professionals to succeed further in
their career keep themselves enrolled in various courses at the MOOC platform so that they can
walk shoulder to shoulder with their peers and won’t lag behind.

Seeing the popularity of the online education platform a number of well known institutes are
doing tie ups with various online educational platform like courser to launch their courses online.

Today MOOCs are going way beyond to attract the people towards it. They are coming with a
number of innovative ideas to retain the customer. That is the reason why the revenue generation
of the coursera from it’s India market is among the top 5 .

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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

For my research I used the primary one.

Primary research is a new research, carried out to answer specific issues or questions. It can
involve questionnaires, surveys or interviews with individuals or small groups.

For doing the primary research I prepared a questionnaire that had all the possible question that
could have me helped to find out the behavior of the students doing professional courses towards
MOOC.

The questionnaire consists of the following questions:

Educational qualification?

Do you prefer studying online?

From where do you get to know about MOOC?

What would be some of the characteristic of a MOOC that would interest you?

What motivates you to avail the MOOC?

What would you expect from an instructor of MOOC?

These are some of the questions of the questionnaire.

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 RESULTS
Gender

MALE
FEMALE

Out of the total number of respondents 57.5% were male and

42.5% were female

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 educational qualification

intermediate
graduation
post graduation

The percentage of graduates taking part into the

questionnaire filling were 67.5% follow by the post graduates
22.5% and 7.5% intermediate students

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 hours spend online

2-3 hour
3-4 hour
4-5 hour
more than 5 hour

20 % of the students stay 4 to 5 hour online, 22.5% of the

students stay 3 to 4 hour online, 17.5 % of the student stay
online for more than 5 hours and 40% of the student stay 2 to 3
hours stay online

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 do you prefer studying online

yes
no
maybe

67.5% of the students prefer studying online, 20% of the

students don’t prefer studying online and 12.5% of the students
are not sure about online studying

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 from where do you get to know about MOOC

FRIENDS
TEACHERS
OTHERS

57.5% of the students come to know about MOOC by their

friends, 20% of the students get to know about it by other
medium, 22.5% of the students get to know about it from their
teachers.

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 what would be some of the characteristics of
a MOOC that would interest you

content

learning from world class

professors
accessibility

outcomes

50% of the students use MOOC because of the content, 12.5%

of the students use it for it’s accessibility and 35% of the
students use it for the availability of world class professors over
MOOC.

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 FINDINGS

Through the questionnaire I find out that even though the students are using
various online education sites like coursera, edx etc but they were not aware of the
fact that all these online educational platforms are called as MOOC.

Less than 20% of the people knew about exactly what MOOC is.

42.5% of the students expect a MOOC instructor to be a subject matter expert.

60% of the students think that MOOC provides value added courses.

40% of the students would like to enroll themselves into the communication skills
related courses on MOOC

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 CONCLUSION

Through my study I can conclude that there is huge increase in the number of the students who
are availing the MOOC platform for studying. There is definitely a scope of awareness among
the students regarding it .But the awareness number has increased for sure. And it’s popularity is
getting increase day by day because of the various benefits that the MOOCs provide like time
flexibility, easy accessibility etc.

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 REFERENCES

Shramistha Pramanik (2018) ATTITUDE OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS TOWARDS

SWAYAM: Indian version of MOOC.

Dr. R.ALAMELA, Dr.R NALINI, B. MARAGATHAM,

G.R.GAYATHRI,MS.DHIVABHARATHI : perception of millennial towards learning.

KARL L SMART AND JAMES J.CAPPEL (2006) : STUDENTS’ perception of online learning
: a comparative study.

ECONOMIC TIMES

HINDUSTAN TIMES

COURSERA

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