Coursera for Schools tells us a lot about the failure of MOOCs and what comes after.

Closure of Texas System's innovation arm shows that ed-tech start-ups need similar things -- including business models and faculty buy-in -- whether Silicon Valley or a university fund them.

Web-based courses are a practical way to engage in meaningful discussions with learners from a diverse set of communities. By gathering online to learn about a topic, learners can form communities that transcend geographic and political boundaries. This paper aims to investigate a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) and Wisconsin Library Services, which brought open access online learning to thousands of lifelong learners around the state of Wisconsin. “Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region”, a massive open online course the UW-Madison launched in 2015, paired a regional focus with face-to-face discussions at 21 public libraries to deepen learners’ personal connections to the subject matter. Through strategic partnership, targeted course development and marketing of events, intimate local discussion sessions and statewide events provided fora in which Wisconsin residents would explore changing weather and climate with university faculty, staff and students.,This paper uses a case study approach and firsthand interview feedback from librarians, library staff and university faculty and staff who were leading the effort.,This paper explores the lessons learned and practical implications from the project and offers insight into libraries and universities looking to engage specific communities in non-credit online learning projects into the future.,This effort was a first of its kind partnership for the University and the State of Wisconsin.

A new report predicts the decline of the self-paced e-learning market and a revenue drop in the billions. Sales of mobile and gamified products, however, are on the rise.

Last week I had a post in the Chronicle titled “MOOCs Are Dead. Long Live Online Higher Education.” triggered by the departure of Daphne Koller from her day-to-day role at Coursera. Mr. Ng left Coursera in 2014 for Baidu, focusing on deep learning research. Mr. Thrun stepped down as chief executive of Udacity in April of […]

UC online education: A University of California pilot project has become another expensive example of the ineffectiveness — so far, anyway — of plans to widen access to college degrees via MOOCs.

Disability group that sued Netflix over online captions turns to universities.

why would we want to, exactly?

The arrival of new technologies in schools and classrooms around the nation has been met with a mixture of enthusiasm and anxiety. Education technologies (ed te

Copyright MOOC couldn't get permission to use Bielstein chapter.