Professor Jason Hill's “Sustainability of Food Systems: A Global Life Cycle Perspective” is among the first five massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) the U of M will offer. MinnPost’s reporters work ...

Have massive open online courses emerged from the Trough of Disillusionment to the Slopes of Enlightenment? Wherever MOOCs belong on the Gartner Hype Cycle, one thing is clear: there are more courses ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The future of higher education online is, at present, clear as mud. Do Massive Open Online Courses, ...

Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies opened its first Massive Open Online Course Wednesday, free and accessible to all students with Internet access around the world. The ...

An important technique for understanding what might really be happening in the world is to avoid being bowled over by stunning numbers. For instance, when Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs – free ...

The MOOC was The Next Big Thing---and then it was written off for dead. But for Anant Agarwal, one of the founding fathers of this online reboot of university education, it's only just getting started ...

The word mooc sounds a bit like slang from Goodfellas or the affectionate shortening of the already-affectionate name of a former outfielder for the New York Mets. In fact, a MOOC is a new kind of ...

Missing in the fiery debate over whether Massive Open Online Courses are as good or far worse than traditional residential classes is a heretical discovery I made last year: that in some cases MOOCs ...

Hundreds of thousands of students worldwide are flocking to free online courses in topics like artificial intelligence and data analysis. But what about the student who’s struggling with basic algebra ...

Everyone in higher education is obsessed with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) these days, and taking one sounded like a good idea. Whenever the local community college mails out the latest list of ...

The first ever MOOC I took had 160,000 people signed up for it. The forums were buzzing with activity. New posts were being added every few minutes. If I had any question at all, it had already been ...

For a year or two there, free online classes seemed like they just might be the future of higher education. Why, some influential computer scientists wondered, should there be thousands of colleges ...