Technology/Administrators

Coursera strikes licensing agreement with Antioch University, bringing business model for massive online courses into sharper focus.

U. of Texas System wants to use its edX partnership to aid its goals of reducing costs and increasing completion. That will mean awarding credit, under certain conditions, for MOOCs.

With HathiTrust ruling, 'fair use' advocates in academe continue a legal winning streak that could have historic implications.

Nonprofit colleges are moving into for-profits' turf online, study finds, sparking new competition based on price and brand.

Growth in adult students' interest in online education is stagnating, report finds, and colleges will have to do more to stand out online.

Kerfuffle over release of Kinsey Institute sexual research tool highlights the opportunities and hazards of app-based data collection.

As the first humanities MOOCs hit the ground, professors and students contemplate the limitations of Coursera's peer-grading system.

In partnership with Pearson, largest public university system will take to the Web in coordinated way, but focus at start on veterans and those with many accumulated credits.

World Education University, a company that wants to underwrite "free" degree programs by selling access to student information, exemplifies new wave of higher ed entrepreneurship.

How will MOOCs change the financial models of universities that have built revenue streams with credit courses online?