MOOCs are 'massive open online courses,' made popular by platforms like edX and Coursera. Here's how they work — and why they're one of the best ways to learn on…

"Massive open online courses" — or MOOCs — are very popular and accessible forms of e-learning seen on platforms like edX and ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

What if You Blended Adaptive Learning With MOOCs?

MOOCs and adaptive-learning software are often billed as two of the most potentially game-changing technologies in higher education. The White House, for one, is excited to see what might happen if ...
Inside Higher Ed

8 Myths About MOOCs

This week I’m in Cambridge for a Hewlett Foundation sponsored invited participant workshop on Learning With MOOCs. The timing of the gathering is good, as colleagues at my institution are working hard ...
Yale Environment 360

Registration open for spring MOOCs: Free online learning with Yale experts

Yale launches its 2015 slate of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) at Yale with three new classes on politics, music, and the law, which begin Monday, Jan. 12. Registration is now open for these free ...
Inside Higher Ed

An Open Letter to Sherry Turkle on MOOCs and Online Learning

I am writing this open letter to you after reading your chapter on Education in your important, indispensable, and beautifully written new book Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital ...
Forbes

MOOCs Emerge As Disruptors To Corporate Learning

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Four findings emerged as a wake-up call for Chief Human Resource Officers, Chief Learning Officers as well as senior business ...
The Conversation

MOOCs: learning about online learning, one click at a time

While MOOCs are free, their value lies in providing information about how students learn. Flickr/Ilonka Talina, CC BY-SA Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, took the world by storm in 2012. After ...
HR Dive

MOOCs take their place in the corporate learning world

According a report released by Technavio, the corporate e-learning market in the USA is predicted to reach a value of nearly $31 billion by 2020. Much of this can be attributed to the rapid ...
Forbes

What Learning Leaders Can Learn From MOOCs

What a difference a year makes. When we launched openSAP just over a year ago, it was one of the first big corporate-run massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Now, everyone from Aquent to Yahoo is ...
HR Dive

Will corporate learning adopt MOOCs some day?

Massive open online courses, otherwise known as MOOCs, are becoming more and more popular. Someday, they might even play a role in corporate learning, according to Forbes. Quoting data released by ...
The Atlantic

The (Accidental) Power of MOOCs

Back in 2013, the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that MOOCs—massive open online courses—were about to change everything: Nothing has more potential to lift more people out of ...
Yale Environment 360

Registration open for free fall MOOCs: Online learning with top Yale experts

Following the successful January launch of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) at Yale, three of the university’s most distinguished scholars are returning to teach MOOCs this semester. Students from ...