Amidst live-streamed commencement ceremonies and webcasted graduation speeches, the debate over online education comes up more often than usual, Forbes 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 —…
The battle for and against massive open online courses (MOOCs) rages on as we head into summer, with new arguments emerging on both sides of the MOOC divide.
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…
Read any article about online higher education and I guarantee you will come across the much-touted ‘MOOCs’– massive open online courses – as well as references to, perhaps,…
During an interview at the Ethernet Innovation Summit in Mountain View, California, Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe was asked what surprises were on the horizon due to the ever…
The backlash from some corners of higher education against the proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) could be an essential step that many other technological innovations had…
Coursera is a for-profit company that has joined with top universities to deliver free online courses. The “free” part sounds great until we realize the real intent of…
A new report released by the University of Edinburgh shows that a majority of students who take the university’s six Coursera massive open online courses (MOOCs) do so…
