Massive Open Online Courses as an Augmentation of E-Learning: A Review
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are considered as important trends in electroniclearning (e-learning) in higher education. Many universities offered MOOCs to any learners who preferlearning via the internet and benefiting from the offered courses online. Massive Open Online Courses areopen learning to anyone to enrol and study and many offered courses are free which do not require payingfees. MOOCs are delivered as video-based content via the internet offered by educational institutions anduniversities to many international learners. There is a lack of previous studies and scientific papers thatinvestigates the global role of MOOCs in e-learning. MOOCs has emerged due to learning theories relatedto learners whether individuals or networks of learners. Therefore, this paper reviews Massive Open OnlineCourses characteristics, it spread around the world, its practical implementation in e-learning LearningManagement Systems (LMS) and its theoretical contributing roles to enhance e-learning through its rolesin promoting e-learning theories.