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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As part of a yearlong series, a research group within the School of Information hosted a panel ...

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 ...

I’m almost done with the six-week course on gamification I’ve been taking as part of TIME’s look at Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). I’ve watched most of the video lectures by class leader Kevin ...

At first glance, they seem too good to be true: free courses—often offered by top universities—that students can complete at their own pace from anywhere with an internet connection? What’s the catch?

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and online learning represent a transformative shift in education, offering access to high‐quality content for a global audience. With the integration of digital ...

Everyone in higher education is obsessed with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) these days, and taking one sounded like a good idea. Whenever the local community college mails out the latest list of ...

The first lecture I ever heard about “MOOCs” was forthright, apocalyptic, and distressingly plausible. The year was 2012 or 2013, and I was a young assistant professor on the upslope of an academic ...

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