They have been labelled as the future of education and dismissed as a fad, but so far much of the attention on MOOCs has been on their value in the college sphere. Now, however, educators are ...

Today marks the second birthday of edX, Harvard and MIT’s nonprofit platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). A lot has changed since the heady days of 2012. Back then, the Chicken Littles of ...

The evidence is in. More robots equals fewer jobs. If MOOCs are a sort of robot, then why haven’t the MOOC robots taken the faculty jobs? MOOCs seem like the poster child for technological ...

At that time, MOOCs courses were said to be 'revolutionising' education, and the universities of the future, it was said, would soon be doing away with much of their bricks-and-mortar infrastructure ...

‘MOOCs’ stands for Massive Open Online Courses and, depending on your viewpoint, they’re either the future of education or a giant marketing scam. One thing’s for certain, they’re the buzz of the ...

Journalists, as 2013 ended, were busy declaring the death of MOOCs, more formally known as massive open online courses. Silicon Valley startup Udacity, one of the first to offer the free Web-based ...

Mahir Jethanandani's California high school offered only a few classes related to business and finance – disciplines he was interested in exploring. So, he turned to massive open online courses, or ...

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 ...

DOTCOM mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the global MOOCs market size and it is poised to grow by USD 17.70 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 40% during the ...

An odd fact of MOOC mania is that it has barely touched one prominent sector of higher education: the nearly 250 Roman Catholic colleges and universities in the United States. So far, only Georgetown ...