Northwestern is developing new, free massive open online courses (MOOCs) on the digital Coursera platform, after terminating its for-credit, tuition-charging Semester Online program this past spring.

Say you’re prepping for a job programming apps for Android OS, and you’re turning to MOOCs for help. How do you figure out the right sequence of courses from among the hundreds (if not thousands) ...

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 ...

You should learn how to program. Right now, more than any time in history, learning how to program is easy. In the ye olden times (1960s-1990s), programming was relagated to über nerds and scientists, ...

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 ...

A Student takes online course at her home in Fengtai District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 17, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] China is committed to further opening up its Massive Online Open Courses and ...

We had high hopes for massive open online courses (MOOCs). We wanted them to be the solution to making knowledge accessible to millions and enhancing the way we learn. We hoped they would disrupt the ...

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Federal Minister of Education and Research, Prof. Johanna Wanka praised the project: “Whoever wants to help shape the digital society must understand its programming language. This is a language that ...

Although the public’s faith in traditional, brick and mortar higher education is dwindling, college tuition prices keep rising. A Pew Research Center national poll found that 57 percent of prospective ...