MOOCs are the massive open online courses that were supposed to upend everything in higher education. They were supposed to be free and open to everyone with online access, bringing the best possible ...

Nearly one-third of professors surveyed were “somewhat” or “very” skeptical about online-only courses before teaching a MOOC. Now more than 90 percent are enthusiastic about online classes. Browse ...

What if, as a novice teacher or professor, you began a course and the entire class decided to leave—either from apathy or boredom or the popular student conviction that whatever is not a part of the ...

The MOOC market (Massive Open Online Courses) has exploded. Not only are there a proliferation of courses, there are now a proliferation of MOOC platform providers and tools. There are more than 2 ...

In the seven years since colleges and companies first started experimenting with large-scale online courses known as MOOCs, more than 100 million people have given them a try—though how they are used ...

Online degrees are nothing new. Since the late 1990’s, a steady stream of online degree programs have entered the market, including many reputable options from top-tier schools. But in recent years a ...

If you've ever harboured secret ambitions of becoming a palaeontologist or just watched Jurassic Park too many times, a new massive open online course (or MOOC) has opened for registration which might ...

Today, the MOOC provider Coursera announced a major new initiative. Coursera describes itself as a “education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer ...

Millions of students have signed up for massive open online courses, and hundreds of universities are offering some form of Web-based curriculum. Most students aren’t paying much for these classes, if ...

Everyone’s going MOOC-crazy these days. From frequent media coverage of online courses and platforms like Coursera, edX, Udacity, and Udemy to discussions about the complexities and business models of ...

Editor’s note: Dan Friedman is the co-founder of Thinkful. This shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Online learning long ago solved the access problem: Between the 8 million people who have signed up ...