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…
Sorry for the light posting here, but I’m immersed in writing my book – Teaching Machines – which is due out late 2013/early 2014 (I hope). However, the…
Many college kids in America feel they don't need to be inside a classroom to get an education. For them, virtual education is the wave of the future,…
MOOC. Another acronym to add to your collection. Stands for Massive Open Online Course. Translation: Free, online courses taught by experts in their fields, featuring professors from the…
NSA leaker Edward Snowden's formal education stopped with a GED, a fact that the New York Times' David Brooks and others have spun into a caricature of him…
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…
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…
