17 more top universities offer free cyber courses
Seventeen more leading universities in the U.S. and abroad will start offering free online courses through the online education platform Coursera, the company said Sept. 19.
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Top higher-education technology news: September 2012
Several leading universities have joined the open course movement in what is quickly becoming a campus revolution; for-profit colleges, which include some of the country’s largest online schools,…
Coursera looks to curb cheating in free courses
Coursera, the massive online open course (MOOC) site with myriad university partnerships, will require students to sign an honor code statement before they take the free classes.
Search site matches students with online courses
With a little help from low-cost online courses and tutorials, Nick Gidwani watched two interns go from making $8 an hour to snagging six-figure jobs.
Opinion: Charging for knowledge is antiquated
A campus technologist says the free distribution of knowledge has the potential to dramatically improve lives and economies, as the world is on the threshold of a global…
Free online courses for college credit? Sort of
The University of Washington (UW), unlike the 11 other universities that pledged this month to host classes in Coursera's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform, will offer credit…
Top campuses jump into the free online course game
A dozen of the country's top universities will make courses available for free on the open online class site Coursera by the beginning of 2013. The announcement was…
Experts: UVa.’s Coursera partnership far from an embrace of online learning
The University of Virginia will make four of its courses available for free online in 2013 after the campus’s governing board last month cited a lack of web-based…
Popular video forecasts the end of traditional higher education
In Bill Sams’ future, only the children of the ultra-wealthy will attend on-campus college courses, the student loan industry will collapse, and Google will build an omniscient online…
Watch: Coursera: The new face of higher education?
Coursera, the brainchild startup of two Stanford professors who found great success with free online classes last year, just secured a $16 million round of funding, ZDNet reports.