With the opportunity offered to all to take courses from prestigious universities for free or at a lower cost, universalization of quality education, less restrictive training, and much more, we have ...

MOOCs were promised to be a thunderclap of global education reform – making the best in higher education freely accessible to anyone, anywhere. MOOCs – the massive, open, online courses – were going ...

Amherst College's recent and much publicized decision not to join nonprofit massive open online course (MOOC) provider edX draws a stark line between small classroom instruction and the online courses ...

What exactly is a MOOC? Like most interesting things in this world, the term avoids simple definition. For instance, what constitutes a course? A particular body of knowledge to be delivered? Except ...

Chris Cramer didn’t sleep much last semester. The chemistry professor and four other University of Minnesota professors are volunteering hundreds of hours to teach free massive open online courses ...

In the past year or so there's been a flurry of announcements from the big MOOC providers involving new degree programs based around their online courses. Earlier this year, for instance, Coursera ...

As the U.S. economy continues to suffer the consequences of the spread of the novel coronavirus, Tim Lewis is keeping his skills sharp through a series of massive open online courses, or MOOCs. When ...

Said in a Brooklyn accent, the title of this article could sound like some kind of neighborhood taunt. But what I am referring to when I say “MOOC” is a new wave of online educational courses, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about making a dent in entrepreneurial thinking. Two of the hot topics in education in the last few years have been ...