Nearly one-third of professors surveyed were “somewhat” or “very” skeptical about online-only courses before teaching a MOOC. Now more than 90 percent are enthusiastic about online classes. Browse ...

MOOCs are the massive open online courses that were supposed to upend everything in higher education. They were supposed to be free and open to everyone with online access, bringing the best possible ...

You won’t have any excuse to skip class anymore. French startup OpenClassrooms is launching the first State-recognized bachelor degree in France that relies exclusively on MOOC. The startup partnered ...

Everyone’s going MOOC-crazy these days. From frequent media coverage of online courses and platforms like Coursera, edX, Udacity, and Udemy to discussions about the complexities and business models of ...

For all of the hype and excitement about massively open online courses (MOOCs), the dropout rate is about 90%. Only a fraction of people get anywhere near finishing the course, let alone passing it.

What if, as a novice teacher or professor, you began a course and the entire class decided to leave—either from apathy or boredom or the popular student conviction that whatever is not a part of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover education as a sector and as the bedrock of all sectors. In 1970, Coastline Community College became the first college ...

In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Coursera went public, while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. Ten years ago, ...

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 ...

We’ll be updating this page regularly. Please check back for updates. Call it the year of the mega-class. Colleges and professors have rushed to try a new form of online teaching known as MOOCs—short ...

An internal study of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by Harvard and MIT shows a serious decline in the number of students choosing to enroll and certify via these internet-accessible ...