MOOC: Enhancing participation for lifelong learning
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2026.v11.n08.024Keywords:
MOOC’s (Massive Open Online Courses), Lifelong Learning, High dropout rateAbstract
The phenomena of MOOCs have the capacity to attract a broad and heterogeneous audience with differing requirements for educational opportunities. From the standpoint of lifelong learning, MOOCs' features are intriguing because they provide a potential answer to the world's rapidly growing need for education. In addition to being a human right founded on social fairness and emancipation, high-quality education for all promotes peace and sustainable development. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aspires to ensure access to inclusive and fair quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all individuals, states that education for all is the ultimate objective. The findings provide credence to the idea that knowledge is a human construct that is ubiquitous and may belong to anybody, anywhere, at any time. Although 2020 was another significant year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2012 was called the Year of the MOOC. MOOCs have significantly changed how people study and acquire information. MOOCs provide a flexible, reasonably priced option to enhance one's profession, acquire new skills, and provide high-quality educational experiences. The aftereffects of the review showed that MOOCs, or greatly open web-based courses, are many times used in advanced education as supplemental educating assets. Because MOOC completion rates are lower than those of traditional face-to-face courses, the effectiveness of MOOCs has been questioned. Lastly, recommendations for self-directed lifetime learning and continuing education through MOOCs will be made, along with enterprise and educational regulations. The India MOOC portal claims to provide top-notch courses in different languages.
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