Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs, are growing considerably popular as they are seen to be benefitting teachers, students, and the various stake holders of education. The educational institutions of higher learning are re-evaluating the online options. Given the increasing number of students and a dearth of qualified teachers, the new technology is gaining tremendous significance. MOOCs is a very promising concept and is rapidly evolving. The technology makes learning possible from wherever and whenever giving a new dimension to the tutor tutee relationship. This alleviates the need to meet real-time to facilitate learning, unlike the conventional teaching. At the moment there is a lot of demand and focus on developing MOOCs for all disciplines of education. This is predicted to benefit students located at different locations, remote locations as well, and they receive quality education from experts.

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Keywords: Online, Education, MOOCs, SRL, Learner’s Engagement.