When an adult professionals needs more education to advance their careers, they have a few options. They could enroll in an expensive, and timely, four year program or…
Designed to support the teaching of computing in schools the massive open online course (MOOC) is now live, Computer Weekly reports. A partnership between exam board OCR, Cambridge…
Roosemberth Palacios sports braces on his teeth and a curly mop of hair. At 16, he finds high school boring. So after school, he logs onto his computer…
After barely more than a year in business, opposite-coast rivals edX and Coursera have become two of the biggest higher-education organizations in the world, with a combined 6…
I’ve been asked several times in the past few months, why I started the Wide World Ed initiative. I started it because I have deeply held personal values…
Shriro Australia’s Sydney showroom was abuzz with Harvey Norman proprietors and floor staff in late July when the company held a special event to launch the new range,…
Kurt Squire has enrolled in about a dozen Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the University of Wisconsin news service reports. “The experience was fun — to essentially be…
Any person. Any study. And now – any corner of the globe. Beginning next semester, the university will offer its first four massive open online courses – commonly…
The American writer H. L. Mencken once said that there is always a well-known solution to every human problem: neat, plausible, and wrong. MOOCs look neat, are plausible…
Distance education is nothing new, but these days it is hard to escape hyperventilation about its latest incarnation: MOOCs, or "massive open online courses," The Economist reports. Universities…