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…
The "Massive" in MOOC refers to class size, but one might think it stands for cost savings as well. MOOCs are free for students who register and cheap…
We’re in the midst of a revolution. And just like in “I, Robot,” intelligent machines are the cause: smartphones, The Collegiate Times reports. They’re raising up an army…
Classrooms across the nation are adopting a new technology trend known as the “flipped” classroom, where students watch lecture videos as homework and teachers use class-time for discussion,…
In my classroom at the community college where I teach, students can sit in two types of seats: at computers, which are arranged in horseshoe formation facing three…
A professor who was trumpeted as early evidence of MOOC’s acceptance and success in top schools, will pull his course off the Coursera site, saying that he now…
Constant innovation helped make one of the first massive open online courses, or MOOCs, at Vanderbilt more like a “real class” and benefited faculty and students by improving…
One of the definitions of the world "cloud" in Merriam-Webster's dictionary is "something that obscures or blemishes". This definition often seems fitting for today's computing cloud. I have…
A new facility at the University of Montana will allow students to learn about cybersecurity and use “big data” to solve real-world problems, the Missoulian reports. On Monday,…
"Massive open online courses," or MOOCs — the fast-growing movement to put higher-education courses online for free, have gotten the attention of President Obama, WGBH reports. "Universities like…
It's not going to be your average first day of school. Northwestern University's Medill School is launching its first "massively open online course" next week, called "Understanding Media…
