Washington, D.C. -- With less than seven hours until congressional bickering would shut down the U.S. government for the first time in 17 years, a freshman Republican congressman…
Bloomberg Businessweek has an interesting look at DYI genetics company 23andMe’s moves to keep ahead of the competition out to help you get to know yourself really, really…
With college costs at a record high, many prospective students are forced to choose between price and prestige – and women facing that decision are overwhelmingly choosing the…
For a year or two there, free online classes seemed like they just might be the future of higher education, Slate reports. Why, some influential computer scientists wondered,…
A panel lead by faculty discussed their experiences in teaching courses online Friday morning, The Duke Chronicle reports. The forum was a response to an April meeting of…
GW is guiding a handful of professors to create massive open online courses, which could start teaching students from around the world by the end of the academic…
Academics will face the challenges within the country’s higher education system at a conference in November, and top of the agenda will be technology and research. The Mena…
Two years ago, massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, burst on to the education scene when Stanford University offered a free introductory course in artificial intelligence that…
Big employers such as AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. are helping to design and fund the latest round of low-cost online courses, a development that providers say will…