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…
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered by universities have the potential to shake up education. People yearn to learn, but many enroll on MOOC courses only to…
Net price calculators may be good in theory – the online tools give families a picture of which colleges are affordable – but using them can present some…
A new local open online course—or LOOC—is helping students develop digital literacy. A pioneering offering from the Faculty of Education and UBC Library is enabling UBC students, staff…
As big data becomes increasingly popular, it's occasionally worth taking a step back to think about what companies are looking to achieve as well as the necessary elements,…
Since then-Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun opened his Fall 2011 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course to tens of thousands students around the world, there has been a lot of…
Online education -- considered by some a savior of sorts for cash-depleted universities and community colleges -- actually costs more in the long run and does not deliver…
The rapid rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is an exciting development for higher education, drawing Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, and other top schools into ventures touted as…
Launched in March, Open2Study began by offering 10 free subjects the following month, with each taking four weeks to complete. Seven months on, 32 courses are available with…
The country's higher education system seems ripe for tech industry disruption. Student debt is out of control. Graduation rates are unacceptably low. And employers still can't find enough…
