"There are certainly MOOC junkies, who take them for no other reason than they're free and they like hanging out," grins Dr Ben Brabon of Edgehill university, whose…
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 students as…
President Barack Obama invited nearly 150 universities, nonprofit, and business leaders to the White House Jan. 17 for a summit devoted to finding ways of improving college access…
I've participated in many MOOCs (I've lost count). Many of them I felt were xMOOCs but I wasn't so comfortable with my first MOOC experience which I thought…
When your classroom is a global one, filled with well-informed online learners, they don’t cut you much slack, The Conversation reports. Hundreds of people pore over every element…
Wikipedia is still not referred to as a reliable source for use in the classroom by many college and university professors – even as professionals in other fields,…
I spent some time over the holidays looking at some MOOC offerings – either the freebie intro lectures available from some of the major providers, or the clips…
In a speech that chiefly focused on expansions of initiatives announced last year, State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher outlined a massive push to expand the…
France's higher education system is going online with an extra eight million euros being invested in Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs), AllAfrica reports. France's Minister for Higher Education,…