The head of Stanford University, an institution whose academics led the current revolution in online education, has questioned whether MOOCs are able to effectively teach large numbers of…
Federal and state governments need to do far more to increase the accessibility of education data, open data advocates said during an event organized by the congressional eLearning…
One 20,000-student university would have to be constructed somewhere in the world every week for the next dozen years to accommodate the projected 50 million new students expected…
A college degree matters, and there’s no good substitute for the broad education that a student receives on the way toward earning one. College creates an environment where…
I walked into the evening cocktail hour at the recent American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Meeting even more self-conscious than the job-hunting graduate students nervously prowling the…
Online learning advocates have worried for years that the legal and ethical problems surrounding for-profit online colleges would be conflated with more traditional nonprofit university online course offerings.…
At EWA’s National Seminar, Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera, a leading MOOC provider, said enrollment in their classes jumped from 700,000 in February 2013 to more than 3.4…
As business schools tiptoe into the world of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, Harvard has a plan to sidestep the isolation of online learning—a problem that keeps…
Recently, Coursera, the online university course provider, began blocking students from Iran, Cuba and Sudan from using its services, The Guardian reports. Coursera, which boasts more than 21.5…
Several years ago when I began my educational journey, I knew that the cost of college fees and attendance would always be the highest ticket item I would…