Editor's note: This story is one in a series on education issues featured at the 2013 Education Nation summit in New York City on Oct. 6-8. To learn more, please visit EducationNation.com. After ...

Although the public’s faith in traditional, brick and mortar higher education is dwindling, college tuition prices keep rising. A Pew Research Center national poll found that 57 percent of prospective ...

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 ...

"For a serious learner who actually wants to learn and apply knowledge SPOCs provide a much better alternative than MOOCs." Ashwin Demra, cofounder and CEO of Emeritus For most of us, an education ...

Arizona State U, in partnership with edX, will award a freshman year's worth of academic credit through massive open online courses. Arizona State University, in partnership with edX, this fall will ...

Last week marked five years since Stanford University introduced to the world the classes that would soon spark a frenzy over massive open online courses. This commentary is part of a series by the ...

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MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. The change has helped companies ...

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 ...

Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How ...

Perceptions of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are evolving, experts say. While learners around the world turn to MOOCs for free information, some online students look to these courses to build ...

EdTech uses cutting-edge technology to improve education by customizing learning experiences to student needs, facilitating ...