For the first three weeks of teaching a massive open online course (MOOC) about comic books and graphic novels, William Kuskin felt as disconnected from his thousands of…
For 150 years, formal education has adopted an ‘inside-out’ mindset – schools and colleges have usually been organised around the needs of the educators, not the learners. In…
A question has been nagging me for some time now: What the heck is Western Governors University? And for that matter, what are all these other unknown colleges…
About 95 percent of students enrolled in free, online courses from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped them before getting a completion certificate, Bloomberg reports.…
A recent survey from the WICHE Cooperative for Education Technologies found that more than 80 percent of institutions develop their own content for more than three-quarters of their…
Online education experts fear that abysmal massive open online course (MOOC) completion rates could confuse the public about the quality of more traditional web-based classes as in-person college…
Nicole Traore always wanted to go back to school to get her bachelor’s degree, but the 45-year-old mother of three busy boys has a full-time job and no…
Enabling students taking massive open online courses to dive deeper into learning and develop mastery in a particular subject are the aims of a new generation of MOOCs…
San Francisco: Offering a twist on the learn-from-anywhere convenience of Internet classes, a new university is asking freshmen to take a large leap of faith, Z News reports.…
First Stanford, then Google, then multimillion-dollar startup. Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng has put together an impressive resumé in Silicon Valley, Upstart reports. Now the 37-year-old Stanford computer science…