HISTORIAN and ex-Melbourne University provost Peter McPhee has embraced MOOCs, but in a back to the future kind of way. During his recent Coursera MOOC on the French Revolution several students told ...

I took one of the very first MOOCs, and back then the videos, assignments, and certificates were all free. That was in 2011. Unfortunately, this experience can’t be replicated in 2017. As MOOC ...

Although the public’s faith in traditional, brick and mortar higher education is dwindling, college tuition prices keep rising. A Pew Research Center national poll found that 57 percent of prospective ...

Perceptions of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are evolving, experts say. While learners around the world turn to MOOCs for free information, some online students look to these courses to build ...

Online-education provider Coursera is one step closer to academic acceptance, saying Thursday that the American Council on Education would recommend colleges grant credit for the successful completion ...

Most people who take massive open online courses already hold a degree from a traditional institution, according to a new paper from the University of Pennsylvania. The paper is based on a survey of ...

We’ll be updating this page regularly. Please check back for updates. Call it the year of the mega-class. Colleges and professors have rushed to try a new form of online teaching known as MOOCs—short ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. An annual analysis of the landscape for massive open online courses suggests an industry in ...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been hailed as an educational revolution that has the potential to override borders, race, gender, class and income (see go ...