Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a recent addition to the range of online learning flat form options for rapid innovation. Beginning from 2008, MOOCs have been run by a variety of public and elite universities, especially in North America. The term ‘MOOCs’ represents open access, global, free, video-based instructional content, videos, problem sets and forums released through an online platform to high volume participants aiming to take a course or to be educated. With time and place flexibility, MOOCs gathers scholars and ‘like-minded fellow learners around the globe’ The concepts of MOOCs are described, placing them in the wider context of open education Many academics and universities have taken interest to host programmes in MOOCs. Identifying the potential to deliver education around the globe on an unprecedented scale. Many of these academics are taking a research-oriented perspective and academic papers analysing their research are starting to appear in the traditional media of peer reviewed publications. The main motive of this paper presents a systematic review of the published MOOC literature (2008-2020): peer reviewed papers are recognised through journals, database searches, searching in the Web, and chaining from known sources to form the base for this review. This is the first effort to systematically analysing review of literature relating to MOOCs, a fairly recent but massively popular phenomenon with a global reach., the impact of changes in funding and the implications for greater openness in higher education. The theory of disruptive innovation is used to help form the questions of policy and strategy that higher education institutions need to address. This identified current debates about new course provision. This report mainly helpful for decision makers in higher education institutions to gain a better understanding of the current event of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and trends towards greater openness in higher education and to think about the implications for their institutions, online learning and the changes that are currently taking place in higher education at a time of globalisation of education and constrained budgets.