Nearly one-third of professors surveyed were “somewhat” or “very” skeptical about online-only courses before teaching a MOOC. Now more than 90 percent are enthusiastic about online classes. Browse ...

Gleich an zwei Online-Kursen hat Ilja Kantorovitch im letzten Semester teilgenommen. Und das neben seinem eigentlichen Studium. Es waren Kurse der Stanford University, angeboten über die Plattform ...

In the seven years since colleges and companies first started experimenting with large-scale online courses known as MOOCs, more than 100 million people have given them a try—though how they are used ...

Oxford University is going to join the Mooc movement for the first time Oxford University has announced its first "massive open online course" - or so-called Mooc - in a partnership with a US online ...

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.

Lately when I write about MOOCs (and I admit, I do write about MOOCs a lot lately), I feel the need to attach a bunch of adjectives to clarify what I mean by the term: the Stanford-model MOOC. New ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lately, as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have matured into their second and third years of existence, there's been growing concern about the massive drop-out rates that accompany them. However, ...