Nearly one-third of professors surveyed were “somewhat” or “very” skeptical about online-only courses before teaching a MOOC. Now more than 90 percent are enthusiastic about online classes. Browse ...

MOOCs are the massive open online courses that were supposed to upend everything in higher education. They were supposed to be free and open to everyone with online access, bringing the best possible ...

What if, as a novice teacher or professor, you began a course and the entire class decided to leave—either from apathy or boredom or the popular student conviction that whatever is not a part of the ...

You won’t have any excuse to skip class anymore. French startup OpenClassrooms is launching the first State-recognized bachelor degree in France that relies exclusively on MOOC. The startup partnered ...

Everyone’s going MOOC-crazy these days. From frequent media coverage of online courses and platforms like Coursera, edX, Udacity, and Udemy to discussions about the complexities and business models of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover education as a sector and as the bedrock of all sectors. In 1970, Coastline Community College became the first college ...

In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Coursera went public, while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. Ten years ago, ...

We’ll be updating this page regularly. Please check back for updates. Call it the year of the mega-class. Colleges and professors have rushed to try a new form of online teaching known as MOOCs—short ...

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 average completion rate for massive open online courses is less than 7 percent, according to data compiled by an Open University doctoral student as part of her own MOOC studies. Katy Jordan, ...

The 2025 Global MOOC and Online Education Conference brought together over 180 representatives from 76 universities, online platforms, international organizations, and government agencies across 34 ...