MOOCs: Over already?
In the summer of 2011, Sebastian Thrun lit a fire under colleges around the world. The Stanford professor and a colleague filmed themselves lecturing for their course on…
Month: January 2014
This Tanzanian e-Learning enterprise is beating MOOCs by going local
Internet evangelists have pitched massively open online courses (MOOCs) as a boon for education, especially in low-income countries like Tanzania, Motherboard reports. Yet most seem completely oblivious to…
Enterprise Big Data analytics: 10 prominent trends to look for in 2014
Big data—a market that IDC has forecast to surge at a 40 percent compound annual growth rate, from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $17 billion in 2015—presents a…
Universities brace for another year of security breaches
In fall 2012, a Montreal student was expelled after discovering a security flaw in his college’s computer system – a flaw, he said, that could have easily exposed…
MOOCs: Because people want to learn
If you have been living on Mars for the last few years, MOOC stands for massive open online course. They have been around since about 2011, but they…
Who takes MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, represent one of the most momentous—and contentious—changes to higher education in decades. But the debate over the free Internet classes has been…
Power to the student
The interest in the knowledge economy is growing worldwide and a result of this trend is the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC), the Indian Express reports. A surge…
Sleek new online tools on the way for community college system
Picking the right classes that lead to a degree. Registering for courses on time. Checking financial aid status and paying tuition and fees. Navigating the state’s community-college landscape…
Cross-system classes: The future of online education?
University of California (UC) Riverside senior Matthew Emeterio was worried that he might be short of degree credits and have to delay graduation past next spring. But thanks…
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