Massive open online courses (MOOCs), which have skyrocketed in popularity in the last year, offer the draw of college classes that anyone with an internet connection can take free of charge. Now, the ...

Confronted with a thousand learners in a massive open online course, would you be able to give each your personal attention? It seems a far greater challenge than trying to connect with dozens of ...

ATLANTA – Dary Merckens was in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, several weeks before moving to Las Vegas. He was also entering his second month in a master’s degree program at the Georgia Institute ...

Anuli is a writer and new-media enthusiast who dreams about becoming the sixth Spice Girl. Until then follow her on Google+ or Twitter: @akaanuli. Massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, ...

MOOCs may soon become a prominent factor in admissions decisions at selective colleges, a way for students who may not do well on traditional measures like the SAT to prove they can hack it. That’s ...

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RESULTANT FORCE: Which results matter? That's the thought-provoking question in this Will Richardson response to Nicholas Carr's MOOC-hailing article in MIT's Technology Review. For what it's worth ...

Beverley Oliver is involved with DeakinConnect – Deakin University's new open learning space that attempts to move the online assessment conversation forward by encouraging learners to create and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- “A little bit loopy and elliptical, but interesting.” That is how J.R. Reddig, a 61-year-old program director for a Virginia-based defense software contractor, described his ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Studying abroad at an English-speaking university provides endless opportunities for your future success, and the path to that success begins with ...

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