Student Teacher Awareness of MOOCS - Massive Online Open Courses

MOOCs are a relatively new trend in the Teaching Lear ning scenario which propagates and contributes in a major way to continuous Lifelong Learning. There ar e a number of courses being offered online but our students are not enrolling for the same. This study attempts to expl ore the reasons why students are not enrolling for t hese MOOCs. A selfdesigned, pretested Questionnaire was used to collec t information about the B. Ed. student teachers Awaren ess to MOOCs which was divided into 3 partsuse of computers, use of Internet and awareness to MOOCs. A comparison was made among these three and it was found that student teac hers were using You tube videos, online messaging to ols such as email, blogging and Whatsapp groups, to learn thing s and clarify concepts. Use of Internet and online discussion tool for educational purpose was found to be very good among the student teachers. But, the study shows that the awareness of MOOCs is very low among the student teachers. The per ceptions to MOOCs wee mostly negative. However, if gui ded properly, they may start using MOOCs.