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 (MOOCS) are being heralded by some educational administrators and officials as a potential solution for the college affordability crisis. But are they really the…
Berlin-based MOOCs startup iversity, which last year began a pivot away from online learning collaboration tools with the aim of becoming the Coursera of Europe, is launching its…
Growing proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is having a profound (if not fully understood) effect on education. MOOCs, compared to traditional classrooms, have impressively high enrollment,…
A Case Western Reserve University professor will use a $69,000 grant to help develop a free online course on how communities can support and grow new companies –…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s MOOC Research Initiative has granted HarvardX $21,450 to study how massive open online courses might be made more personalized for individuals in…
The human body is amazing, as is the video that accompanies Anne Friedlander's Environmental Physiology course – which will be offered as a free Massive Open Online Course…
Some people hope that the internet will revolutionise higher education, making it cheaper and more accessible to the masses, The Economist reports. Others fear the prospect. Some academics…
In his article “Will MOOCs help you open career doors?” Scott Kirsner reveals that, while employers may be impressed by the initiative that completing a MOOC signifies, they…
The university as the institution of learning is under threat from digital challengers offering MOOCs— Massive Open Online Courses, ABC reports. Professor Jim Barber says this confirms what…
