Coursera should be subject of Mooc, says professor

Academic teachers and librarians providing the bulk of learning courses available New York, New York (United States) (OFFICIAL WIRE) May 18, 2013 Massive open online courses, MOOCs, have become increasingly popular since they joined the elearning ...

Professors across the U.S. are criticizing a rush to offer free online college courses, challenging a movement designed to spread knowledge and reduce higher-education costs. Amherst College faculty voted last month against joining an initiative led ...

To motivate your workers, don't just manage. Be an advisor, says Coursera co-CEO Daphne Koller. In a taped interview with the Wall Street Journal , Daphne Koller, co-CEO and co-founder of Coursera , an online education provider, explains how she ...

In attempting to bring "MOOCs" to the world of teacher training, Coursera and its university partners are courting a new and potentially

Ordinarily, a professor would worry if only one out of every 10 students passed a class. But University of Virginia historian Philip Zelikow seems enormously pleased with such results from the course he just finished teaching on the history of the ...

The University of Melbourne Archives (UMA) holds an extensive repository of rare and fascinating historical records, images and personal papers of organisations and individuals, not only relating or connected to the University, but of local, ...

Why do students cheat — and how are they getting away with it? One unintended use for massive open online courses, dubbed MOOCs, is to help professors better understand the mechanics of cheating in online learning. Bernard Bull, assistant ...

A recent series in the New York Times highlights online education, the challenges in offering high quality courses, bridging the gap between classroom interaction and the flexibility online courses offer as well as the issue of monetizing what's ...

Over the past couple of months, massive open online course (MOOC) providers have been the focus of dissension on some college campuses. But now online learning company 2U is getting some pushback of its own. Last fall, the company, which has ...