MOOCs, SPOCs and next generation Open Access Learning

What’s life like after quitting a tenured job as a professor to become a freelance educator, making video courses and podcasts for a living? That’s on

When two Stanford University professors started Coursera in 2012, the focus was on building free online courses to bring teaching from elite college

The heyday for massive open online courses was studded with hype. So much so, the New York Times even dubbed 2012 the “Year of the MOOC.” Advocates fo

Technology-mediated versions of both education and treatment for mental health have seen much of their potential undercut by the large numbers of part

In a fascinating survey taken at the start of the University of Derby’s ‘Dementia’ MOOC, using Canvas, where 775 learners were aske

The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn’t with online education.

Unemployed workers are gaining free access to 3,800 courses created by elite universities and companies such as Amazon to learn skills and gain professional certificates for new job opportunities.

Large-scale courses known as MOOCs were invented to get free or low-cost education to people who could not afford or get access to traditional options

The new online short courses will range from diploma to masters level, costing as little as $1,250 and running from May until December.

This was the year that more people learned what a MOOC is.As millions suddenly found themselves with free time on their hands during the pandemic, man

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The ads are everywhere. You can learn to serve like Serena Williams or write like Margaret Atwood. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altogether different.

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As most universities digitise all their teaching, they are finding it very difficult to deliver education online. Gorgi Krlev offers three challenges to conventional wisdom

According to a December 2019 report by Class Central, a website that provides a listing of online courses, MOOCs had 110 million students around the world excluding China, which was left out of the analysis for data reasons. More than 900 universities offered 13,500 of these courses. Class Central also found that there were a total of 820 microcredentials, which are digital certifications that indicate competence in a specific skill or set of skills, and 50 MOOC-based degrees.