As MOOC providers focussed on finding a business model, they started putting certain aspects of the experience behind a paywall, hoping to get more people to pay. MOOCs went from free to free to audit ...

There are a number of good options for educators looking to build their own MOOCs. Here is a look at five of the most interesting platforms.

HISTORIAN and ex-Melbourne University provost Peter McPhee has embraced MOOCs, but in a back to the future kind of way. During his recent Coursera MOOC on the French Revolution several students ...

Over the past couple of years, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have taken the academic world by storm. Despite much debate about whether the idea of running free online courses for everyone is ...

A number of MOOCs have taken on the challenge to increase course completion, crafting innovations that are now yielding rates that are up to five times the average. They have accomplished this ...

To some people in higher education, “MOOC” has become a punch line. The initial hype around so-called massive open online courses was so intense — promising a “tsunami” of change ...

What according to you is the future of MOOCs? This question was originally answered on Quora by Deepak Mehta.

Online courses are taught primarily by instructors from Western countries, raising questions about whether they ignore other teaching traditions and approaches to learning, says Philip G. Altbach.

It has become a platitude by now to say that massive open online courses largely failed to achieve the promise many advocates saw to expand access to high-quality education democratically throughout ...

Online-education provider Coursera is one step closer to academic acceptance, saying Thursday that the American Council on Education would recommend colleges grant credit for the successful ...