There isn’t a New York Times bestseller list for online courses, but perhaps there should be. After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Where are massive open online courses now, and where are they going? Robert A. Rhoads, professor of ...

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Georgetown’s first massive open online course, “Globalization’s Winners and Losers: Challenges for Developed and Developing Countries,” launched on the edX platform last Tuesday to an audience of ...

It's no surprise that the Internet provides numerous training opportunities for employees who want to improve their skills and advance their careers. "Massive open online courses," known as MOOCs, are ...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) transfixed higher education in the early 2010s, so much so that The New York Times dubbed 2012 "The Year of the MOOC." That year, Harvard and the Massachusetts ...

Choosing to take classes online as opposed to in-person could be based on many factors. Maybe it offers a more flexible schedule or is less expensive. Maybe it’s proximity. However, just like an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Massive open online courses made a strong entrance into the education scene around the turn of ...

What according to you is the future of MOOCs? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by ...

In Fall 2011, Stanford announced three, free massively open online courses, or MOOCs. Two of these courses, database and machine learning, corresponded to spring 2012 courses that I would be teaching ...

"For a serious learner who actually wants to learn and apply knowledge SPOCs provide a much better alternative than MOOCs." Ashwin Demra, cofounder and CEO of Emeritus For most of us, an education ...