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Coursera, Other MOOC Providers Seeking Path to Profitability
If anything will put a halt to the expansion of online courses, it won’t be lack of interest. The New York Times is reporting that free online education providers like Coursera have hit a million...
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UCLA Conference Weighs MOOCs, Online Learning in California
Last week, University of California – Los Angeles hosted a day-long conference which looked at the potential impact of the massive online open courses (MOOCs) on the education system in California and...
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Brown Community Helping to Drive the Coursera Revolution
The Brown University Daily Herald noted that three of its alumni are now working directly on improving the technical platform for one of the fastest-growing online university systems. Based in...
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Oops! Online Course About Teaching Online Goes Haywire
As Coursera expands its Massive Open Online Course offerings, an embarrassingly public glitch has exposed some of the format’s weaknesses. As blogger Ki Mae Heussner of GigaOM explains, reports of the...
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Measuring MOOC Success Continues to Evolve
How do you measure whether a Massive Open Online Course is actually doing anything when only a small percent of students ever completes the material? John Markoff’s New York Times blog says that...
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Coursera, edX Announce Dozens More College Partners
The two titans of massive online open courses continue to run neck-in-neck in the race up sign up partners. Both edX and Coursera have recently announced the signing of additional partners, with one...
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Are Full College Degrees the Next Step for Coursera?
It’s hard to believe that Coursera has been in business for only a year, as very few companies can match it for the amount of news and hype its product has received. As a platform for massive online...
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MIT Media Lab Summit Predicts Future Disruption of Higher Ed
The most highly-regarded names in online education came together earlier this month at MIT Media Lab to talk about what they see as the future of the medium. The summit, titled Online Learning and the...
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California to Consider Bill to Grant College Credit for MOOCs
The movement to legitimize free online open courses is taking a big step forward with a new bill currently being considered by the California Legislature. Darrell Steinberg, the president pro tem of...
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Coursera Announces Deal to Offer Free Textbooks for MOOCs
For American college students, tuition isn’t the only expense that can appear insurmountable. Talk to anyone who has ever had to pull out their credit card at the campus book store and you’re likely...
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Professor Snarks: Should Coursera Offer a Course on Itself?
A massive online open course about one of the biggest providers of massive online open courses? According Bob Meister, who teaches social science and political thought at University of California...
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10 More Public, State Colleges Join Coursera to Offer MOOCs
As the popularity of massive online open courses (MOOCs) grows, ten more state colleges and public universities from around the United States have affiliated with Coursera to provide a MOOC platform....
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Data, Information Collection Helps Improve MOOC Experiences
Massive online open courses are evolving thanks to extensive data collection from the early efforts to offer college-level classes to a worldwide online audience for free. According to MIT Technology...
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Dartmouth Weighs Possible Online Education Paths
Stephanie Mc Feeters of Dartmouth University has compiled a lengthy treatment of the ways technology and the internet have made a difference in higher education. So revolutionary are these changes...
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Should Public Universities Partner With Coursera or Go It Alone?
Along with increasing acceptance of online courses as part of a changing higher education landscape comes controversy over their value, The New York Times’ Tamar Lewin reports. On the heels of last...
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Next Online Ed Challenge: Recreating Science Labs
A science laboratory, with its long, chemical-resistant tables, Bunsen burners and beakers, has been a staple of learning science in middle school, high school and beyond. Now, as online education...
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MOOC Providers Take Differing Approaches to Profitability
The popularity of massive online open courses is booming. For the first time, the higher education sector is experiencing the same technology-fueled feeling of giddiness that made the dotcom boom...
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Dino 101 Course from University of Alberta Debuts via Coursera
The University of Alberta has introduced Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology, a high-quality and rigorous massive open online course (MOOC) that teaches learners the scientific method through the broad...
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MOOC Providers Turn to Flipped Classroom Model for Success, Revenue
Massively open online courses (MOOCs) providers including Coursera, Udacity, and edX are struggling to find a business model to “accompany their noble cause” of democratizing and reducing the cost of...
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Two of Australia’s Top Universities to Offer MOOCs
Most of the world’s top universities are adopting an online education model, and now two of Australia’ top universities have decided to join them by offering free online courses. According to...
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