Education technology company Desire2Learn has introduced a new all-encompassing version of its flagship offering, Learning Suite, incorporating all of its latest acquisitions and partnerships. At the ...

One of the biggest criticisms of the type of MOOCs produced by edX, Coursera, and Udacity is that they tend to replicate at scale a centuries-old pedagogy: the sage on the stage. It was not always ...

The offices where two professors-turned-entrepreneurs have created an online-education empire are easy to overlook, tucked away in a business center here behind an Indian restaurant and a sandwich ...

In the seven years since colleges and companies first started experimenting with large-scale online courses known as MOOCs, more than 100 million people have given them a try—though how they are used ...

The course-management company Desire2Learn unveiled a MOOC-enabled version of its online-learning platform on Tuesday, joining two competitors, Blackboard and Instructure, in entering the market for ...

What have we learned from the last two years of MOOC research that could help improve the design of courses? This post continues my series of short posts on seven general themes from MOOC research ...

You’re a smart kid in a poor country with subpar universities. Option #1: Leave to attend college somewhere else, like the US. Option #2: Go online and try to teach yourself. Now, there’s a middle ...

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The original big-scale providers of massive open online courses -- Coursera, edX and Udacity in the U.S., FutureLearn in the U.K. -- already could have been the subject of one of those The Rise and ...

The MOOC market (Massive Open Online Courses) has exploded. Not only are there a proliferation of courses, there are now a proliferation of MOOC platform providers and tools. There are more than 2 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about higher education news, trends, and costs. A new master’s degree offering from MOOC platform EdX and seven partner ...