Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about higher education news, trends, and costs. A new master’s degree offering from MOOC platform EdX and seven partner ...

Millions of students have signed up for massive open online courses, and hundreds of universities are offering some form of Web-based curriculum. Most students aren’t paying much for these classes, if ...

My Coursera course, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” might have been labeled “course least likely to become a MOOC.” In many ways, it is an old-fashioned “great books” course, although I prefer to ...

There are a number of good options for educators looking to build their own MOOCs. Here is a look at five of the most interesting platforms. By the end of 2013, most top universities had started to ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s catalog of publicly available massive open online courses is typically marketed toward the non-MIT public. Last fall, however, the university experimented ...

Online-education provider Coursera is one step closer to academic acceptance, saying Thursday that the American Council on Education would recommend colleges grant credit for the successful completion ...

A variety of free online courses are offered by Northwestern. The complete course experience is available to all Northwestern students, alumni, instructors and staff for any of the University’s MOOC ...

Emerging technologies, like blockchain, are ushering in newer internet applications that transcend demographics and national barriers. If more people are educated in the technologies, it helps build ...

To hear some ed tech enthusiasts tell it, online learning is sweeping aside the barriers that have in the past prevented access to education. But such pronouncements are premature. As it turns out, ...