A new world of opportunity is opening up to students who previously may have missed out on a shot at higher education.

Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, make it possible for students to take part in classes via the internet.

As we discover in this edition of Learning World, they are creating something of a revolution in teaching and studying.

Anchor Maha Barada presents three cases of the impact MOOCs are having.

In the first we travel to China to see how online classes offer a new portal into pan-African MOOC initiative.

And finally Maha talks to ‘futurist’ ==