In the seven years since colleges and companies first started experimenting with large-scale online courses known as MOOCs, more than 100 million people have given them a try—though how they are used ...

MOOCs are the massive open online courses that were supposed to upend everything in higher education. They were supposed to be free and open to everyone with online access, bringing the best possible ...

This intermediate-level B1/B2 French course, which meets the requirements of the Common European Framework of Reference for ...

What if, as a novice teacher or professor, you began a course and the entire class decided to leave—either from apathy or boredom or the popular student conviction that whatever is not a part of the ...

MOOCs were promised to be a thunderclap of global education reform – making the best in higher education freely accessible to anyone, anywhere. MOOCs – the massive, open, online courses – were going ...

Today, the MOOC provider Coursera announced a major new initiative. Coursera describes itself as a “education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer ...

You won’t have any excuse to skip class anymore. French startup OpenClassrooms is launching the first State-recognized bachelor degree in France that relies exclusively on MOOC. The startup partnered ...

In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Coursera went public, while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. Ten years ago, ...

A new MOOC centre at the University of Helsinki is tasked with developing web-based teaching and exporting it outside the University, even globally. The centre’s director is Petri Ihantola, who ...

In the summer of 2011 we produced eduMOOC -- a constructivist massive open online course about online learning with the help of a small group of talented and expert professionals at the University of ...