MOOCs Past, present and future

A number of CornellX courses will soon be available for anyone and everyone to take online, now that Cornell has joined edX, a nonprofit online learning enterprise. EdX issued a press release about its newest university partners May 21, which ...

Advocates for MOOCs believe they will make quality education available to everyone on the globe. Academia is hardly known for its rapid embrace of change. But when it comes to accepting massive open online courses, or MOOCs, some worry university ...

Large public schools have a unique goal: to broadly educate citizens in a variety of subjects, at an affordable cost. While some students pay full price for their education, higher education is typically subsidized through a variety of sources, ...

The disruption of the economics of higher education are providing new opportunities to refresh and expand IT skills at little or no cost. It couldn't come at a better time for professionals worried about falling behind, or for organizations ...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about how people need to stop throwing the term "disruption" around willy-nilly as part of all-purpose hype . And I want to invoke that principle today, because there are a few good stories out that illustrate ...

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

Education & Careers, Technology, World Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are an emerging trend in higher education. And for the first time a course dedicated to urban planning made its debut this month. Could this trend transform planning ...

Many states are wrestling with how to achieve the twin goals of making higher education both more affordable and accessible to their citizens. California and, more recently, Florida have been in the news as they struggle to find ways of taming the ...