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…
Chris Cramer didn’t sleep much last semester. The chemistry professor and four other University of Minnesota professors are volunteering hundreds of hours to teach free massive open online…
The University of Colorado is entering the world of MOOCs — Massive Open Online Courses — as part of an agreement with Coursera, one of the nation's leading…
Editor Paul Glader sat in on a lecture today at Frei Universitat by Harvard University professor Stephen Greenblatt, arguably the most notable literary critic today and a founder…
We don't know whether massive online open courses (MOOCs) will be more than a fad in higher education -- but they're inspiring other kinds of organizations to create…
Amidst live-streamed commencement ceremonies and webcasted graduation speeches, the debate over online education comes up more often than usual, Forbes reports.
The New York Times dubbed 2012 as the year of the MOOCs, or massive open online courses. Today, MOOCs is the hottest topic in education, ZDNet reports.
Purdue University is just now dipping its proverbial toe in the water when it comes to the hottest development in distance learning — massive open online courses —…
Scott Rapp and Ryan Rapp are purveyors of a new twist in the MOOC trend, what I’m calling ‘’mini-MOOCs.’’ That is, a startup or professor launching an open…
