A MOOC backlash?
Last summer, when I was creating a course on critical thinking (tied to the 2012 Presidential election), I did segments on Media Literacy and Information Literacy, which ended…
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EdX doubles its size with 15 new universities
The not-for-profit massive open online course (MOOC) platform EdX roped in its first Asian institutions, along with more Ivy League ... Read more
Going Gangnam style with MOOC rankings
There is no denying the gaudy statistics surrounding Coursera's rapid ascent to be the world's leading MOOC platform little more than a year since opening its virtual doors,…
The Academic Journey: Beyond MOOCs
Large public schools have a unique goal: to broadly educate citizens in a variety of subjects, at an affordable cost, The Huffington Post reports.
MOOCs aren’t the only kind of online course stirring debate on college campuses
Over the past couple of months, massive open online course (MOOC) providers have been the focus of dissension on some college campuses, Gigaom reports.
Report: Four in 10 colleges to offer MOOCs by 2016
A few high-profile rejections have done nothing to doom the future of massive open online courses (MOOCs), according to a worldwide report. Providing access to MOOCs, in fact,…
Top 5 online computer science master’s degree programs
The unveiling of Georgia Tech's massive open online course (MOOC)-based computer science master's degree, offered for about one-sixth the cost of the university's traditional computer science master's program,…
A Professor Walks Into a MOOC…
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are garnering lots of attention these days. Some see large-scale, web-based classes as the new frontier for colleges and universities, a great…
Coursera at Penn surpasses one million enrollees
One million and counting. That’s the number of open online learning course enrollments Penn reached this month, less than a year after the University offered the first classes…
Georgia Tech to offer MOOC master’s degree on the cheap
Georgia Tech will offer an online master’s degree in computer science for about one-sixth the cost of a traditional master’s degree through a partnership with AT&T and Udacity,…