Have massive open online courses emerged from the Trough of Disillusionment to the Slopes of Enlightenment? Wherever MOOCs belong on the Gartner Hype Cycle, one thing is clear: there are more courses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

When students enroll in MOOCs, they almost always watch a series of video lectures. But just watching videos — without also engaging interactively — is an ineffective way to learn, according to a When ...

The first lecture of School of Foreign Service Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs Daniel Byman’s Terrorism and Counterterrorism Massive Online Open Course took place at the Mortara Center ...