They have been labelled as the future of education and dismissed as a fad, but so far much of the attention on MOOCs has been on their value in the college sphere. Now, however, educators are ...

Mahir Jethanandani's California high school offered only a few classes related to business and finance – disciplines he was interested in exploring. So, he turned to massive open online courses, or ...

Although the public’s faith in traditional, brick and mortar higher education is dwindling, college tuition prices keep rising. A Pew Research Center national poll found that 57 percent of prospective ...

Arizona State U, in partnership with edX, will award a freshman year's worth of academic credit through massive open online courses. Arizona State University, in partnership with edX, this fall will ...

Everyone’s going MOOC-crazy these days. From frequent media coverage of online courses and platforms like Coursera, edX, Udacity, and Udemy to discussions about the complexities and business models of ...

Aaron Sekhri is currently pursuing a degree in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University and is the managing editor of opinions at The Stanford Daily. They are inherently egalitarian; the fundamental ...

Perceptions of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are evolving, experts say. While learners around the world turn to MOOCs for free information, some online students look to these courses to build ...

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are wonderful things. We should applaud MOOCS, participate in MOOCs, teach MOOCs, and encourage our institutions to participate in the MOOC movement. But what ...

In three years, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have taken online education into uncharted territory. MOOCs promise to bring educational content to anyone with a computer, and companies like ...

Back in 2013, the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that MOOCs—massive open online courses—were about to change everything: Nothing has more potential to lift more people out of ...

Editor's note: This story is one in a series on education issues featured at the 2013 Education Nation summit in New York City on Oct. 6-8. To learn more, please visit EducationNation.com. After ...