Rise of Massive Open Online Courses

With the emergence of online education, there comes a need for a dedicated method to efficiently introduce the available content to learners. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) attempt to achieve this feat by taking the class experience, as it is, online. These special types of learning courses have boomed vastly in the past year, triggered by an Artificial Intelligence course offering of Stanford fellows Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig. MOOC is different in the aspect that they generally have deadlines and provide certificates of accomplishments. Homework assignment deadlines are mostly weekly on the topics taught in a given week. In this paper, the major MOOC organizations are introduced and their track is discussed.