Back in 2013, the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that MOOCs—massive open online courses—were about to change everything: Nothing has more potential to lift more people out of ...

With the opportunity offered to all to take courses from prestigious universities for free or at a lower cost, universalization of quality education, less restrictive training, and much more, we have ...

Teaching an online course that 49,000 students have signed up for presents an unprecedented challenge when it comes to an important aspect of instruction: knowing your audience. I could see from my ...

Missing in the fiery debate over whether Massive Open Online Courses are as good or far worse than traditional residential classes is a heretical discovery I made last year: that in some cases MOOCs ...

If anybody stays on top of the massive open online course segment, it's Class Central, a search engine that taps into every MOOC platform. Recently, it issued its annual review of MOOC stats and ...

Researchers at Brown and Columbia attempt to determine not just costs associated with MOOC production, but faculty time, marketing, and IT development…and if it’s all worth it. Is a MOOC worth ...

What if Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) aren’t actually courses at all? Our research teams at Harvard and MIT have shown over and over again that MOOC students look and act nothing like ...