Abstract:

In the Indian education system, teaching and learning process generally takes place in the traditional classroom setting, where the teacher face to face explains the content to the students. Nowadays, with the combination of innovation with instruction, new framework has changed the method of conveying knowledge. The purpose of learning or education is not only to make the individual literate but to develop rational thinking, knowledge and self-dependency. In the ongoing years, the enlistment of the understudies towards the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has expanded. India comes next after the United States in the number of understudies enlisted for the online courses. The current paper centers on the different foundations of MOOCs in India and attempts to discover the preferences, drawbacks and explanations behind the development of MOOCs or online learning platforms in India from the student’s perspective. The study further analyses the various factors which are independent of the usage of the online higher education platforms. The factors such as age of the respondents, stream taken by them and current educational qualifications were analyzed using the One-Way ANOVA. 

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