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…
Enabling students taking massive open online courses to dive deeper into learning and develop mastery in a particular subject are the aims of a new generation of MOOCs…
San Francisco: Offering a twist on the learn-from-anywhere convenience of Internet classes, a new university is asking freshmen to take a large leap of faith, Z News reports.…
E-learning has been around for quite some time now, and as its popularity continues to grow within the corporate and educational sectors, so does its capabilities, BizCommunity reports.…
First Stanford, then Google, then multimillion-dollar startup. Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng has put together an impressive resumé in Silicon Valley, Upstart reports. Now the 37-year-old Stanford computer science…
"There are certainly MOOC junkies, who take them for no other reason than they're free and they like hanging out," grins Dr Ben Brabon of Edgehill university, whose…
For the first three weeks of teaching a massive open online course—MOOC—about comic books and graphic novels, William Kuskin felt as disconnected from his thousands of students as…
Massive amounts of data are generated by IT systems these days. Some of this is carefully tracked and analysed by well-defined reporting systems (finance and payment information, for…
When your classroom is a global one, filled with well-informed online learners, they don’t cut you much slack, The Conversation reports. Hundreds of people pore over every element…
MOOCs — online courses aimed at theoretically unlimited participation (“massive”) and free access through the web (“open”) — have captured much of the spotlight in debates of higher…
