Distance education

Pearson announces new self-paced, general education courses in hope of catching overflow from crowded colleges. Ivy Tech cautiously becomes its first partner.

With help from venture-backed company, Princeton, Penn and U. of Michigan announce they will become the latest high-profile universities to offer free, interactive courses to massive online audiences.

Argosy University cuts pay rate for online adjuncts, giving a rarely seen glimpse at adjunct pay and raising questions about how for-profits stack up on salaries.

Several weeks into MIT's massive open online teaching experiment, faculty ponder how it could change the university.

Largely unregulated for-profit vocational colleges, which can't receive federal student aid, collect 40 percent of military spouse tuition benefits.

Two Stanford professors spin off their experiments with massively open online courses (MOOCs) into a company that could serve as a platform for similar projects.

The nation's largest university moves to embrace distance ed, hoping to solve growing capacity issues. Some faculty are dubious.

The instructors of Stanford's massively open online artificial intelligence course spin their idea into a for-profit venture.

Academics at a research university and a community college talk about why they jumped at chance to be part of new iTunes courses.

Despite data collection bugs, U.S. News & World Report publishes the first online iteration of its controversial college rankings.