MOOC-ing Through the Libraries: Some Opportunities and Challenges

In present era. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) becomes hot topic worldwide and affects in all most every discipline, profession and institution including libraries. This study aims to define the concept of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and to present various challenges and possible areas in which libraries can assist in the MOOC movement. It is found from the study that libraries can assist greatly in developing MOOCs and gear the MOOC movement in diverse ways. This study may be helpful for those libraries and library and information science professionals who want to seriously get engaged with MOOC and gear up the MOOC movements through their libraries.