MOOC VERSUS LMS

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What is a MOOC?

MOOC means a ‘huge open online course’. The term started in the US in 2008 to depict free, effectively available, totally online courses. MOOCs allow you to consider the best colleges around the globe.
You may utilize a MOOC to create profession abilities, plan for other training, or investigate another premium.

How does a MOOC work?

MOOCs for most of them have a particular beginning and completion date, they run two or three times each year and keep going for quite a long time.
Amid a MOOC, you’ll utilize a wide scope of online media and intuitive apparatuses to associate with college instructors and different students. This may incorporate video addresses, articles, talks, assignments, and long-range informal communication.
Because of the substantial number of individuals taking MOOCs, you’ll typically get support from the network of different students, just as instructors. Also, your advancement on a course may be surveyed through companion checked on composed assignments or PC stamped tests, as opposed to by mentors.

To put it plainly, MOOCs are free courses for heaps of students that occur totally on the web.

Types of MOOCs

MOOCs Users till 2018

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What is LMS?

LMS stands short to learn Management System.
Learning, since you use it to convey instruction courses or preparing programs.
The board, since it encourages you to sort out these courses (make them, change them, allocate them to understudies, grade them, and so on).

The framework, to wrap things up, is only an extravagant word that means “programming”. An LMS is a PC program.
Much the same as Word encourages you to compose archives and Gmail causes you to deal with your messages, an LMS is a product program that causes you to make, oversee, and convey eLearning courses.
An LMS is the “motor” that powers eLearning, and in the most well-known structure it comprises of two separate parts:
A server segment that plays out the center's usefulness (making, overseeing and conveying courses, confirming clients, serving information and warnings, and so on.)
A UI that keeps running inside your program as a web (like Gmail or Facebook), that is utilized by heads, educators and understudies

Now Let’s discuss the difference they have...

And here it comes …

“ LMS is a platform for hosting a course while MOOC itself is a course "

MOOC Platform is like open-source anyone willing to learn can take part in this. There are no limitations for the subscriber’s anyone can take this course
LMS Platform training program geared for storing learning content. Training content is not limited to employees. Some organizations use their LMS to share content to multiple locations as well as partners, clients, and vendors.

MOOCs are a B2C product. Designed to be accessed by a large number of individuals who wish to learn something. Mostly free of cost or low-cost content. Not a lot of reporting features.
LMS is a B2B product, This is for organizations to train/educate their students, vendors, employees, etc. You’re paying for access to the system rather than the content which is brought in separately but stored and tracked using the system.

MOOCs can accommodate an unlimited number of learners. But In practice, most corporate training MOOCs are not open to the general public.
LMS — Unlike MOOC it does not give a platform to many users so, accommodation is limited in number for learners

MOOCs can be continuous i.e. they do not have a stipulated time period for the course offered which can run anytime, any day.
LMS hosts traditional courses that are usually discrete entities,i.e. They have a particular time period for the course after which it will be closed.

MOOCs They are not static content, this means the course materials can change anytime. In addition, MOOCs are based on the concept of bite-sized learning, old content can be replaced with current knowledge.
LMS These traditional courses are static the content, learning activities, and so on are designed before launch and the same for every learner, every time.

MOOCs Large size due to unlimited content and unlimited users for lifetime learning
LMS Relatively small due to limited content and limited users and the content can be removed after the completion of course.

MOOCs They are the course itself and the platform, Coursera,edX, Udemy is the platforms that host the MOOC. These platforms provide a place for content creators to host the content
LMS Many courses can simultaneously be hosted since it is just a platform and not a course

MOOC edX, Udemy is the 1st platform for a branded website promoting courses based on a Learning Management System (LMS).
LMS Moodle, Blackboard, Click2Learn are the LMS platforms that provide a place for course creators to host their content and manage their learning environment.

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