The Ministry of Education is to guide construction and use of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) and strengthen their management, according to guidelines released on Tuesday. Higher education ...

MOOCs offer a cost-effective alternative to traditional education, reducing the financial burden on learners fuels the demand for massive open online course (MOOC) platforms market. Massive Open ...

Education technology company Desire2Learn has introduced a new all-encompassing version of its flagship offering, Learning Suite, incorporating all of its latest acquisitions and partnerships. At the ...

What have we learned from the last two years of MOOC research that could help improve the design of courses? This post continues my series of short posts on seven general themes from MOOC research ...

In Brussels, yesterday, Androulla Vassiliou (European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth) announced that the "first pan-European" MOOC platform will be launched on 25 April ...

One of the biggest criticisms of the type of MOOCs produced by edX, Coursera, and Udacity is that they tend to replicate at scale a centuries-old pedagogy: the sage on the stage. It was not always ...

The MOOC market (Massive Open Online Courses) has exploded. Not only are there a proliferation of courses, there are now a proliferation of MOOC platform providers and tools. There are more than 2 ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Kuxuexi, a MOOC e-learning platform, is applying the ...

Coursera will soon double the number of its employees. A growing backlash and simmering resentment among some faculty toward massive open online courses (MOOCs), coupled with low retention rates, ...

Australian company's investment of roughly $165 million in Coursera and FutureLearn suggests open course providers have found a viable business model. Not everyone is sold. The original big-scale ...