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 ...

(MoneyWatch) Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been heralded as a way to reach the disadvantaged, and particularly those without access to higher education in developing countries. A new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is it with Stanford professors and Massive Open Online Courses (a.k.a. MOOCs)? For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, two of the three most popular MOOCs — Udacity and Coursera — were ...

Whether you want to learn about bioethics or the letters of the apostle Paul, there’s probably a MOOC for that. In fact, that class on Christian scriptures is one of the courses Andrej Rasevic is ...

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 ...

Before Intel giant McAfee revamped its new-hire orientation, it was over 80 hours long and consisted of roughly 40 hours of pre-work, 5 days of on-site training, and a “robust” syllabus of post-work, ...