Danaka Porter was always interested in supply chain management. So when her friend recommended the master's program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she considered applying. But the ...

Perceptions of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are evolving, experts say. While learners around the world turn to MOOCs for free information, some online students look to these courses to build ...

[Event at Capacity] Please join webcast live at 12:30pm ET or view archived video on our site shortly after. For decades, policymakers and futurists have heralded digital tools as essential to the the ...

DISTANCE education is nothing new, but these days it is hard to escape hyperventilation about its latest incarnation: MOOCs, or "massive open online courses". Universities had been tinkering with open ...

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are often described as the future of education — or at least a significant part of it. But there may be a significant problem with them: a very small proportion ...

New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), the pioneer in distance education courses in the country, has ventured in the digital education arena with 11 free Massive Open Online ...

DOTCOM mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups ...