MOOC

The massive open online course. Universities who launch it are  Udacity by Stanford AI
professor Sebastian Thrun, the launch of Coursera by Stanford AI professors Daphne Koller and
Andrew Ng, and the launch of edX, a joint partnership (initially) between Harvard and MIT. It
captured the imagination of many in the press and in school administration. MOOCs will mean
“the end of college as we know it."
History
MOOCs might entail — pedagogically, technologically, and so on. “Open” in particular is
interpreted in many ways: "open" as in open enrollment, openly-licensed content, or open-
endedness. The term “MOOC” was actually coined in 2008. Stanford and particularly Sebastian
Thrun and his Stanford colleagues have received most of the credit in the mainstream press for
“inventing” the MOOC.
cMOOcs vs xMOOcs
The cMOOCs often rely on tools like RSS, sometimes known as “really simple syndication.” RSS
is used to syndicate content from blog posts, but it also makes possible the aggregation of
content and resources. In other words, rather than driving users to a particular course website
or a learning management system for all their interactions, the users in cMOOCs work in their
own online spaces. Their work is then syndicated, through RSS, to a hub for the course.
xMOOCs tend to look more like learning management systems. They rely heavily on video-
based lectures and discussion forums, most of which resides on the main course site. Some
xMOOCs utilize automated assessment. 
Mooc is intentionally made for university level students - a way for students to be able to
obtain a college-level coursework for free. But according to their demographics more student
who has college degree sign up for it.
There are some school who wants to pursue MOOC. Some of it are free and others are not.
These are all fairly traditional courses that fulfill fairly traditional educational goals. The
difference:  now these courses are being offered online. Rather than knowledge-building in the
hands of the learner, these MOOCs continue to be designed so that content is delivered by the
instructor or by the platform. Rather than occurring on one's personal domain (a blog, for
example) where a learner gets to reflect on her or his learning experiences, these MOOCs
require students participate in traditional assessments — often in a closed platform with
proprietary content.

Advantage
Student can study in his own time frame