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Masculine Open Online Courses
More female professors are experimenting with MOOCs, but men and STEM classes still dominate course offerings.
Boost for Udacity Project
Student performance is up, retention is down, and San Jose State University's partnership with a MOOC provider is still on pause for the fall.
Don't Call It a MOOC
Guided by student performance results, two psychology professors at the U. of Texas at Austin take their introductory course online in what they think is the first ever "SMOC."
Feminist Anti-MOOC
Can education be free and online and yet reject some of the choices made by proponents of massive open online courses? A class about to debut aims to show what's possible.
Charting a Course
In report to faculty and students, UT president outlines principles for online education and asks for greater input from professors.
Kaplan 2.0
Kaplan, which includes Pearson-like ed-tech offerings as well as for-profit degree programs, won't miss a beat as The Washington Post moves on.
Opinion
Dead or Dormant?
California's controversial online education bill may be on hold, but just because it hasn't passed doesn't mean it hasn't had a significant impact, write Phil Hill and Dean Florez.
Rubber Hits the Road
As fall approaches, some campuses get ready to grant credit for MOOCs.