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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. But the hype and the hate have gone too far. MOOCs are clearly not the solution to higher education’s problems—far from it.

AUSTIN, TEXAS -- With college tuition prices spiraling ever upward, it seems counter-intuitive that top schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University would also be ...

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 ...

The fast expanding universe of MOOCs has a new addition. Berlin-based startup iversity, founded in 2011 to offer online collaboration tools for learning management, has relaunched itself as a platform ...

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 ...