new delhi delhi university is serious about the massively open online courses mooc or at least the promise of massdissemination of information through the internet it is a member of the global problemsolving consortium among eight universities which allowed its students and faculty free access to a mooc on confronting global challenges in october lady shri ram colleges psychology students completed an eightweek course in october and usbased coursera has said the college will host its learning hub in india divyanshi chugh thirdyear psychology student at lsr who had the idea of getting her classmates to sign up for a course on social psychology by the wesleyan university through coursera says they started on august 12 with about 45 students signing up in our college we have slots for extra curricular activities every week we used the slots on tuesdays and fridays says chugh though the full set attended the sessions 25 took the final exam all of them getting distinction first the course is free she says enumerating the advantages of moocs then the courses are more grounded in applications for instance we had to analyse a website and design our resumes based on principles of social psychology these were then peerreviewed anonymously by others taking the course while many takers are through with their mainstream classbased education or never went at all chugh explains that combining a mooc with classroom exercise has its advantages the dropout rate is very high for moocs she says but with 25 of us doing it together and the faculty being involved helped for their friday sessions dus own contribution to online learning has been rather modest and posted on them the material collated during the workshops most of them have seen very few updates since the launch