A number of MOOCs have taken on the challenge to increase course completion, crafting innovations that are now yielding rates that are up to five times the average. They have accomplished this ...

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 ...

The hype has faded for the massive courses, and their leading commercial proponents have moved on to other gigs. But they’ve left a legacy of the transformative potential of online technology in ...

In November 2011 I was taking one of the first MOOCs from Stanford. At that time, many new MOOCs were being announced and I started Class Central as a way to keep track of them and figure out what I ...

MOOCs had no predictable schedule, and it was up to the university or professor to decide when the course would be offered again.

Lost in the polarized debate around massive open online courses is a clear-eyed look at what problems MOOCs are well-suited to solve and which are better left to other solutions.

MOOCs, with all their potential advantages and disadvantages, really should be considered as part of that bigger picture." But considering the economic pressures facing higher education, are educators ...

Explore an exclusive interactive tool, based on data released by edX, that provides fresh insights about who takes massive open online courses.

Arizona State University, in partnership with edX, this fall will begin to offer credit-bearing massive open online courses at a fraction of the cost of either in-person or traditional online ...

The top five free online courses of all time follow no pattern whatsoever. One covers programming, two are about natural sciences and two others examine brain topics from very different perspectives, ...

The colleges and companies offering MOOCs can be pretty guarded these days about releasing specific numbers on how many people enroll or pay for a “verified certificate” or microcredential showing ...

It’s this: the reason MOOCs will fail to displace universities is that, unlike universities, they’re not dating sites.