But one overlooked benefit of online learning has been to help universities find a new generation of talented students – and perhaps, along the way, society’s next Steve…
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are increasingly multilingual, and two of the largest providers of the free massive open online courses recently announced international initiatives — in…
How will MOOC-based learning aid learners in entering and performing in the workplace? We may imagine MOOC-based learning to serve as a qualification in two ways: let's call…
If you are in college, I don’t mean to alarm you—but you are probably being experimented on. Stop checking for both of your kidneys; it’s not that kind…
More than 210,000 people signed up when the University of Pittsburgh offered its first five massive open online courses last year. Though that was more than 11 times…
Battushig Myanganbayar, a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from Mongolia, asks me, "Have you ever heard of the 'Freshman 15'?" He's referring to the storied…
The Mooc (massive open online course) phenomenon is having a significant impact on higher education – especially business education, the Financial Times reports. In less than two years,…
In 1996, a Republican governor and a Democratic governor teamed up to convince the leaders of 17 more states to create the all-online, competency-based Western Governors University. “It…
With the launch of their Syllabus Tracker tool Utah State University is providing open access to all course syllabi through a functional and user-friendly dashboard. The syllabi that…
The University of the People, a tuition-free online university, received accreditation on Feb. 13 from a national agency and will graduate its first class of seven students later…