If anybody stays on top of the massive open online course segment, it's Class Central, a search engine that taps into every MOOC platform. Recently, it issued its annual review of MOOC stats and ...

For the past three years, when higher education observers and policymakers have managed to take a breather from the political pandering over student loans, the dominant conversation in the world of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education, edtech and higher education. MOOCs, the massive open, online courses that were supposed to revolutionize ...

As professors have discovered, the task of converting a course for MOOC use is not as simple as taking recordings of class lectures and cutting them up into digestible segments. And while there are ...

An odd fact of MOOC mania is that it has barely touched one prominent sector of higher education: the nearly 250 Roman Catholic colleges and universities in the United States. So far, only Georgetown ...

Missing in the fiery debate over whether Massive Open Online Courses are as good or far worse than traditional residential classes is a heretical discovery I made last year: that in some cases MOOCs ...

That’s massive open online courses, to you and me. And MOOCs are everywhere. But they may also be polarizing in a way that is hurting the future of education. I can’t remember if it was “MOOCs are ...

Researchers at Brown and Columbia attempt to determine not just costs associated with MOOC production, but faculty time, marketing, and IT development…and if it’s all worth it. Is a MOOC worth ...

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of massive open online courses (MOOCs), those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? An article this week ...

When I began writing about MOOCs a couple of years ago, much of the furor revolved around the imminent demise of classroom education. That hasn’t happened. For example, they are a valid, complementary ...

John Warner’s recent blog post “MOOCs Are Dead, What’s Next? Uh-Oh” makes a lot of sense. That is, if you’re an ostrich with its head in the sand. From our perspective, MOOCs are providing great ...

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