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) ...

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.

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, ...

If you could visit a college classroom a hundred years from now, would you expect it to look just like one of today's classrooms? I suspect not. Yet if you walked into almost any college classroom ...

Coursera, the online education company, announced on Wednesday that it was expanding a program that awards special certificates to students who pass multiple MOOCs. The company unveiled the program, ...

“MOOCs are either the future of higher education or the vehicle to its demise,” PBS reporter Gwen Ifill, in the video series “Rethinking College” MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are great for ...

“The new course will present the essential theoretical and practical foundations of parallel programming,” said Tröger. Participants will learn about important concepts such as synchronization, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students currently enrolled in for-credit courses as part of a CU degree on Coursera program are eligible for free access to non-credit (open) versions of 200+ CU courses. As a current student ...

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 ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The U.S. Department of State and massive open online course provider Coursera are partnering to ...