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…
For a year or two there, free online classes seemed like they just might be the future of higher education, Slate reports. Why, some influential computer scientists wondered,…
A panel lead by faculty discussed their experiences in teaching courses online Friday morning, The Duke Chronicle reports. The forum was a response to an April meeting of…
GW is guiding a handful of professors to create massive open online courses, which could start teaching students from around the world by the end of the academic…
Academics will face the challenges within the country’s higher education system at a conference in November, and top of the agenda will be technology and research. The Mena…
A couple years ago, Rutgers historian David Greenberg noticed a defect endemic to books about social, political and economic problems: The last chapter always sucks, The Washington Post…
Two years ago, massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, burst on to the education scene when Stanford University offered a free introductory course in artificial intelligence that…
Big employers such as AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. are helping to design and fund the latest round of low-cost online courses, a development that providers say will…
Everyone would like a solution to the problem of rising college costs. While students worry that they cannot afford a college education, U.S. colleges and universities know they…
