Just over six months ago, online education platform Coursera thanked a Syrian doctor for a poignant blog post that spoke directly to its mission to change the world…
Despite controversies concerning the motives on online education companies, Cornell professors say online courses can be effective source of learning for students, The Cornell Daily Sun reports. Recent…
Sebastian Thrun was instrumental in building Google’s self-driving car and Glass projects, and helped launch the company’s Google X wing to spearhead “moonshot” projects like Project Loon, Gigaom…
Dartmouth College has joined the nonprofit online learning platform edX, founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Union Leader reports. Massive open online courses,…
A busy Wednesday morning delivering his State of the State address and handing out Sutter Brown playing cards didn't keep Gov. Jerry Brown from heading to San Francisco…
With a few keystrokes, you can register for a HarvardX MOOC on Computer Science, Genomics, Justice, or China. Hundreds of thousands of people have done so, and in…
Interested in learning how to build web sites or improve your web design skills? There's a wealth of resources for you (including our own night school on the…
Massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, could soon be used to augment the depth and variety of the curriculum taught in British schools, said education secretary Michael…
The Georgia Institute of Technology’s master’s degree in computer science program based on massive open online courses (MOOCs) started this week with a head-count that's not all that…
There were 55 million viewings of recorded lectures, problems attempted, web pages read, and forum comments posted in Harvard and MIT's massive open online courses (MOOCs) since 2012.…