Coursera is already one of the leading providers of MOOCs (or massive open online courses) in the US, and its now getting a helping hand from none other than the US government in broadening its ...

When Ohio State University math professor Jim Fowler and his colleague Thomas Evans, a senior instructional designer at the school, decided to create a calculus MOOC, they envisioned a course with an ...

Despite their passion for teaching and commitment to the field, educators around the world – with varying years of experience, teaching different subjects, at different levels, in a variety of ...

The IT revolution that was supposed to transform higher education has failed to materialize, at least in the way we had imagined it. The revolution did occur, but not directly within higher education- ...

Massive open online course providers, such as edX, have consistently experimented with new learning initiatives, from fully online master’s programs to high school initiatives. As higher education ...

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 ...

Silicon Schools Fund CEO Brian Greenberg believes that blended learning is about “reconceiving the role of the student, the teachers, and how you define schools.” But such cosmic shifts require ...

Ed Byrne is Vice-Chancellor at Monash University. He has received a wide range of funding over his career. Superficial opinion abounds, and nobody ever got famous for suggesting things were pretty ...

Allison Littlejohn receives research funding from a number of sources including the European Commission, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, the Higher ...