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…
Improving health while holding down health care costs is the kind of having-your-cake-and-eating-it combination that most people can get behind. In fact, both ideas are embedded in the…
Anant Agarwal, president, EdX, believes the blended classroom is the future - a classroom that will benefit from a rich array of online courses and the vitality of…
With enrollment now open for Yale’s first four courses on Coursera — a platform for massive online open courses, or MOOCs — faculty are leading efforts to expand…
Professional network LinkedIn rolled out its new University Pages feature ... to much fanfare, but the pages are as much as a matter of smart engineering as they…
Online courses are no longer solely synonymous with for-profit, community and large state colleges. MOOCs, traditionally defined as Massive Open Online Courses, serve as a model for delivering…
The new president of the statewide union representing SUNY New Paltz teachers has said no to credit-bearing or privately operated MOOCs, Record Online reports. MOOCs, or massive open…
Dozens of top universities and colleges are scrambling to get in on the latest trend in higher education, massive open online courses known as MOOCs, Time reports. Enrollment…
Urbana High School senior Michael Chen wasted no time filling out his application to the University of Illinois last month, The News-Gazette reports. Officially set to debut Sept.…
I entered the online college classroom where I teach – the one that exists in that ethereal world inside the computer, on the internet and across the wi-fi…
Last fall, an engineering professor at San Jose State University named Khosrow Ghadiri tried something radical in his Introduction to Circuits course. He made a MOOC a central…
