In December 2013 a group of academics gathered during a Texas snowstorm and began the second phase of a discussion about massive open online courses. They were not terribly impressed by the hype the ...

Debates on the pros and cons of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) often overlook how these online sessions fundamentally change the dynamic of learning. I’ve been writing about the emergence of ...

A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these “massive open online courses” stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher education. Their interactive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Four findings emerged as a wake-up call for Chief Human Resource Officers, Chief Learning Officers as well as senior business ...

Boston University released two Massive Open Online Courses in January, bringing the total of online MOOCs offered to six. Introduction to Differential Equations is the newest Massive Online Open ...

A MOOC is a massive open online course on different topics—ranging from the sciences and finance to music, humanities and information technology— offered for free via the web by top performing ...

MOOCs may have started out as an anarchic educational free-for-all, but as more schools move toward offering credit for these vast online courses, the expectations around assessing student performance ...

The first lecture I ever heard about “MOOCs” was forthright, apocalyptic, and distressingly plausible. The year was 2012 or 2013, and I was a young assistant professor on the upslope of an academic ...

Giving spark to its collaboration set up last year with EdX, a massive open online course (MOOC) platform, the Indian Institute Technology - Bombay (IIT-B) has launched recently its first three MOOCs ...