In December 2013 a group of academics gathered during a Texas snowstorm and began the second phase of a discussion about massive open online courses. They were not terribly impressed by the hype the ...

Massive online open courses (MOOCs) are threatening to knock higher education off its traditional autonomous hill with a far more flexible and accessible learning mode than anyone could ever imagine.

Our massive open online courses – or MOOCs – bring The University of Manchester's teaching to a global audience. All you need to undertake a MOOC is an internet connection. Unlike other courses, they ...

MOOCs may have started out as an anarchic educational free-for-all, but as more schools move toward offering credit for these vast online courses, the expectations around assessing student performance ...

The first lecture I ever heard about “MOOCs” was forthright, apocalyptic, and distressingly plausible. The year was 2012 or 2013, and I was a young assistant professor on the upslope of an academic ...

A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these “massive open online courses” stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher education. Their interactive ...

A MOOC is a massive open online course on different topics—ranging from the sciences and finance to music, humanities and information technology— offered for free via the web by top performing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Four findings emerged as a wake-up call for Chief Human Resource Officers, Chief Learning Officers as well as senior business ...

The average completion rate for massive open online courses is less than 7 percent, according to data compiled by an Open University doctoral student as part of her own MOOC studies. Katy Jordan, ...

Giving spark to its collaboration set up last year with EdX, a massive open online course (MOOC) platform, the Indian Institute Technology - Bombay (IIT-B) has launched recently its first three MOOCs ...