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…
As the hype subsides, it’s time to take a long hard look at massive open online courses (MOOCs). So says Monash University’s Neil Selwyn, an expert in the…
The recent announcement from Sebastian Thrun, founder of MOOC provider Udacity, that he is abandoning his original "teach the world" educational vision and concentrating on corporate training, has…
Three GW offices are teaming up for the first time to improve how the University manages research data as a way to attract top professors, the GW Hatchet…
US MOOC provider Coursera has a pilot program to help students who have completed a free online course to advertise their achievement on their LinkedIn profile, Financial Review…
Yes, Jacob and Sophia and Emma and Mason and all you other students planning to apply to college some year soon: Your online life can affect your chances…
Now that American education has entered the era of the MOOC -- the Massive Open Online Course -- the opportunity for cheating appears greater than ever. The omniscient…
In a world awash in data, UC Berkeley is meeting the flood head-on by establishing a new institute to support faculty, researchers and students in their efforts to…
There's a story going around college campuses--whispered about over coffee in faculty lounges, held up with great fanfare in business-school sections, and debated nervously by chain-smoking teaching assistants,…
