Can taking a MOOC help a student land a better job? Proponents of the massive open online courses hope so. Each of the major MOOC providers—Coursera, edX, and Udacity—has expressed interest in helping ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More This month marks the third birthday of edX, the online learning platform ...

Critiques about MOOCs, centered around low completion rates, may be fair and valid. But these concerns are framed in the traditional benchmarks for what makes a college course successful. In June 2013 ...

Coursera and Udacity appear to have found an answer—for now—to the business model questions that have plagued MOOC providers: partner with companies, such as AT&T and Google, design courses that ...

Huge online courses will be coming to the University of Texas System next year, the system announced Monday, Oct. 15. With this news, the University of Texas System becomes the first university system ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Cohan, a Boston-based senior contributor, covers stocks. Online education is getting a sudden burst of media attention. That ...

edX has teamed up with CourseTalk to provide a platform for course reviews that includes star ratings and in-depth comments. The service, currently up and running on edX, displays a sidebar containing ...

2U, a SaaS platform that helps nonprofits and colleges run online universities, plans to acquire all the assets of Harvard and MIT-founded edX for a deal north of $600 million, according to multiple ...