With the nation debating models and metrics for the federal government’s rating of America’s more than 4,000 colleges and universities, there’s one crucial area that no one talks…
For the last three weeks, I’ve been a student again. I’m following a MOOC offered by FutureLearn, an offshoot of the Open University in partnership with a number…
Are MOOCs already over, The Washington Post reports? It may seem like an odd question given that the Massive Open Online Courses have been touted as the future…
Forgive me for boasting, but I think I'm getting the hang of online learning. I turned in my first personal finance-related case study three days ago – on…
Data-visualization companies are creating buzz with visual representations that let you “see” your data and manipulate it—instead of reading columns of numbers, Forbes reports. Big data is a…
There has been no shortage of new year's Big Data and Business Intelligence predictions in my inbox in the past month. As the predictions have trickled in, I…
That’s what The New York Times suggested today, drawing on new research from the University of Pennsylvania. But as the Times also acknowledged, in some ways MOOCs (short…
Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 students from around the globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence, starting what was widely viewed as a…
The head of global research connections for Microsoft is "deeply sceptical" that MOOCs will establish a sustainable business model and does not see them as a threat to…
A number of years ago, I wrote occasional pieces for a now-defunct online publication that focused on the intersection of economics, politics and culture. And while my writing…
