Silicon Valley startups Coursera and Udacity — as well as the Harvard and MIT-backed non-profit edX — may be driving the momentum behind massive open online courses (MOOCs)…
In a year, MOOCs have gone from being a niche service for underserved markets, to a short-term fix for course supply problems in funding-starved public colleges, to a…
Rarely a day goes by when MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are not in the news. There is no hotter topic of conversation in education technology today, Forbes…
Students attracted to massive open online courses (MOOC) for their accessibility are sometimes required to purchase textbooks for MOOCs that offer nothing but a certificate upon completion.
The University of Minnesota is leaping into free, digital classes. The massive open online courses, or MOOCs, will be open to anyone in Minnesota and anywhere else in…
After attending the Technapex’s MOOC Madness event last Monday, I found myself both excited about the potential MOOCs have to expand the reach of higher education, as well…
While massive open online courses (MOOCs) may be making some headway in reaching across the ocean to engage with students all over the world, a new study suggests…
