If last year was The Year of the MOOC, this one is the year of disenchantment with massively open online courses, Motherboard reports. Haven't you heard? Online courses…
A group of scientists and engineers who advise President Obama on national technology policy wrote in a Dec. 18 report that massive open online courses (MOOCs) could prove…
Coursera, the popular massive open online course (MOOC) platform, intrigues, Forbes reports. With over 5 million students served and $85 million raised—both numbers are first among the “MOOC…
Stanford's Sebastian Thrun, one of the founders of the massive open online course (MOOC) movement, shook up the education world with a recent interview in which he suggested…
Fears of losing a constant career, income and not fulfilling life responsibilities are prompting some people to undertake postgraduate studies online, Gulf News has learned. “I did not…
It wasn’t so long ago that the excitement surrounding online education reached fever pitch, MIT Technology Review reports. Various researchers offering free online versions of their university classes…
"I like to think of education as giving people superpowers." With this metaphor, Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng summed up the purpose of MOOCs, or massive open online courses,…
The idea of a remote course that will “educate” thousands or hundreds of thousands of students is something only a venture capitalist could dream up, The New York…