If one of the core philosophies of online learning is to democratize education, then a new verified certificate option for a philosophy course on MITx on edX — the massive open online courses (MOOCs) ...

Massive, open, online courses could be reshaping the typical college classroom. Tonight, PBS NewsHour Weekend Anchor Hari Sreenivasan looks at how in the third story in his Rethinking College series.

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. One of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s most popular massive open online courses is ...

The study of philosophy is hardly the dead-end its detractors would have one believe. Students who major in the subject do better on the GRE than just about any other major in verbal reasoning, ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - MOOC (massive open online course) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and via the web. 2012 became "the year of the MOOC" according to The New York Times, as several ...

We are in the midst of the MOOC-ification of higher education. Depending on your response to massive open online courses, they represent either a promising future or the downfall of higher education.

Why not let him e-guest-lecture? (Michael Sandel of Harvard via Flickr/CC) Are MOOCs and other online materials a threat to quality public higher education, and to our role as professors? The members ...

I recently took a Philosophy of Technology and Design class through FutureLearn, but did it make me a massive open online course (MOOC) convert? Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 ...

Giving college credit for a massive open online course will devalue degrees, but the moment I write that, a voice in my mind asks, "Why do you believe that?" Although I don’t think colleges and ...

The San Jose State philosophy professors who recently spoke out against the school’s embrace of a video version of a social justice class were right to worry about the boom in online learning and how ...