Filter & Sort
One Course, Three Flavors
Students in Harvard University's introductory computer science course face a choice of what they earn upon completion: a certificate, a $350 voucher or academic credit.
Brazil’s Home-Grown MOOC
Boosting skills and access are the aims of a new Portuguese-medium platform.
Tempered Expectations
Survey shows academic leaders' enthusiasm for online education dipped in 2013 after interest among institutions with no such offerings faltered.
Go Easy on MOOCs
President Obama's science and technology council recommends the federal government and regional accreditors get out of the way for MOOCs.
Scaling Back in San Jose
University will offer a new round of the courses it created with Udacity -- but this time as regular college classes.
Opinion
Year of the Backlash
Might massive online courses from elite institutions -- which have been credited with legitimizing online education -- actually be undermining the public view of other forms of digital learning, Peter Stokes and Sean Gallagher ask?
Confirming the MOOC Myth
At a conference on MOOC research, speakers back up commonly held beliefs about the medium with data.
The (Off-Campus) Future of MIT
Using the MOOC provider edX, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology starts to talk about "unbundling" its own education.