With forethought and support, science instructors can design effective massive open online courses. You have full access to this article via your institution ...

This week I’m in Cambridge for a Hewlett Foundation sponsored invited participant workshop on Learning With MOOCs. The timing of the gathering is good, as colleagues at my institution are working hard ...

Yale launches its 2015 slate of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) at Yale with three new classes on politics, music, and the law, which begin Monday, Jan. 12. Registration is now open for these free ...

Following the successful January launch of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) at Yale, three of the university’s most distinguished scholars are returning to teach MOOCs this semester. Students from ...

While MOOCs are free, their value lies in providing information about how students learn. Flickr/Ilonka Talina, CC BY-SA Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, took the world by storm in 2012. After ...

There are two MOOC narratives. An insider MOOC narrative. And an outsider MOOC narrative. MOOC insiders are people who have taught a MOOC, worked on a MOOC, done research about MOOCs, championed a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Four findings emerged as a wake-up call for Chief Human Resource Officers, Chief Learning Officers as well as senior business ...

Coursera is already one of the leading providers of MOOCs (or massive open online courses) in the US, and its now getting a helping hand from none other than the US government in broadening its ...

What a difference a year makes. When we launched openSAP just over a year ago, it was one of the first big corporate-run massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Now, everyone from Aquent to Yahoo is ...

MOOCs and adaptive-learning software are often billed as two of the most potentially game-changing technologies in higher education. The White House, for one, is excited to see what might happen if ...

MOOC is an acronym for Massive Open Online Course. The term was first used to describe a course on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08) taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes. The ...

What is it with Stanford professors and Massive Open Online Courses (a.k.a. MOOCs)? For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, two of the three most popular MOOCs — Udacity and Coursera — were ...