How to best Utilize MOOCs

MOOCs stands for massive open online courses. These courses were first introduced in 2011 and since then they have gained so much popularity. The purpose of MOOCS is to gain knowledge regarding different fields and especially in technological areas. But the problem here is that how a person can best utilize their MOOCs or how they can find the right course for themselves. Are there any websites that offer them? If yes then how can we know which course is best for us or which can help us more. The answer to all these questions is to find out the best platforms that are providing MOOC courses. The names of best platforms regarding MOOCs are

• Udemy
• Coursera
• Udacity
• Edx
• FutureLearn

The above mentioned are some of the best platforms that have partnered with various universities and they prepare MOOCs in the form of various assessments, videos and readings. These MOOCS have resulted to be very helpful in advancing the career of millions of students. Some of the MOOCs courses are available for free but there are many advanced courses that are available for students with the aim to take their degree to a more advanced level.

As we know that whichever the website we will open, a variety of massive open online courses will be shown to us. This makes it very hard for a student to decide which course he should select. There must be a proper way for a student to decide what he wants. So first what you have to do is decide your area of interest. In which course you have interest and you think that it can help you in advancing your knowledge. Choosing the right course for yourself is very important. If you don’t select the right one for yourself it wouldn’t be fair to you. So the right decision must be made. Once you have figured out your area of interest, the next step comes, which is to open the website that is providing the best course and type the subject of your interest in the search engine. A series of courses will be shown to you. Open these course one by one and read the description carefully. Try to get a sense of what the course has to offer. And don’t forget to read the reviews section of the students as these reviews are a proof whether a course is good enough or not. There also comes a question whether you need a prior knowledge of the course before starting the course or not. For that I would recommend that a student should select a course about which he has a prior knowledge of. In this way it will become a little easy for the student to understand the course. Even if you don’t have a prior knowledge of the course, still you can manage to learn the course. Once you have read all the details and reviews about the course and you think that you can do this course and also you have figured your time limit in which you are going to complete the whole course then you are ready to sign up for the course.