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Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for students, professors, and teaching assistants. MOOCs have recently received a great deal of attention from the press, education professionals, entrepreneurial vendors, and technologically literate sections of the public. 

MOOCs will provide free access to advanced courses to students of higher education in the university system. Across the world, premier universities have put their courses online by setting up open learning platforms, such as edX. Commercial start-ups such as Coursera and Udacity have also been launched in collaboration with prestigious universities, offering online courses for free or charging a small fee for certification. The rapid expansion of MOOCs has sparked commercial interest from venture capitalists and major corporations who want to enter the Higher Education (HE) market using a MOOC approach.

Students’ participation in MOOCs is a vital area of interest. Factors that influence students to learn include developing personal and professional identity, challenge and achievement, enjoyment, and fun. A Survey conducted at Kurukshetra University shows that student awareness fell into three categories a) To support lifelong learning and understanding of the subject matter, b) For fun, social experience, and intellectual c) To experience or explore online education.

In order to investigate the awareness of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) a qualitative study was employed, and semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with students of Kurukshetra University. The researcher interviewed the participants based on a list of questions expanded from the three primary research questions based on the awareness, content usage, and learning outcomes. The questions were open-ended, which allowed the participants to freely express their experiences, thoughts, and feelings about the use of MOOCs. This study demonstrates the awareness and motivation among students of Kurukshetra University.