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The Lure of Lore
Company established by founder of Princeton Review buys nascent e-learning platform, as part of plan to help colleges use technology to lower tuition.
Politics and Cautions in California
As details emerge for plan to outsource some courses, idea attracts considerable interest and considerable faculty scrutiny.
Outsourcing Public Higher Ed
California lawmaker wants MOOCs and other online providers to help meet student demand, and will encourage -- and some fear force -- public colleges to accept those credits.
What Were They Thinking?
IT experts are troubled by Harvard's search of administrators' e-mail -- and wonder why the university didn't have policies to prevent what happened.
Opinion
The MOOC Poem
With apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sherman Dorn considers the hype over massive open online courses.
Measuring the MOOC Dropout Rate
Are only 10 percent of students finishing courses? It depends on how you count.
Opinion
MOOCs R Us
Thomas Friedman's latest celebration of massive open online courses is riddled with contradictions and shallow thinking, writes Carolyn Foster Segal.
The Pulse: Going Undercover Online
This month's edition of The Pulse podcast features an interview with Gwen Burbank, an administrator at St. George’s University in Grenada, West Indies, who went undercover as an M.B.A. student in the university's online program.