Online degrees are nothing new. Since the late 1990’s, a steady stream of online degree programs have entered the market, including many reputable options from top-tier schools. But in recent years a ...

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 ...

Although it has given rise to jokes about cows and an outfielder for the 1986 New York Mets, MOOC is actually an acronym for Massive Open Online Courses. Depending on whom you ask, they point the way ...

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. By the end of 2013, most top universities had started to ...

Foundation essay: This article on the rise of massive open online courses by Martin Weller, Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University, is part of a series marking the launch of The ...

As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I can count. It’s depressing shorthand for skepticism about online ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In Daphne Koller’s TED talk about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), she discusses what she believes ...

Editors' Note: This is the fourth of a four-part series on education reform, online technology, and the future of learning. I am one of the signers of the open letter by the professors of philosophy ...

The transformative impacts of massive open online courses (MOOCs) can be traced back to 2012 when platforms such as Coursera and edX were established in the United States. The trend quickly gained ...

In a previous post we predicted that this year MOOCs will morph into MOCCS (Mid-Sized Online Closed Courses). We believe that universities and companies will begin to create and license online courses ...