Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. But the hype and the hate have gone too far. MOOCs are clearly not the solution to higher education’s problems—far from it.

The evidence is in. More robots equals fewer jobs. If MOOCs are a sort of robot, then why haven’t the MOOC robots taken the faculty jobs? MOOCs seem like the poster child for technological ...

Last week marked five years since Stanford University introduced to the world the classes that would soon spark a frenzy over massive open online courses. This commentary is part of a series by the ...

Arizona State University, in partnership with edX, this fall will begin to offer credit-bearing massive open online courses at a fraction of the cost of either in-person or traditional online ...

There's a fascinating, in a car crash kinda way, piece from a college professor insisting that massively open online courses (MOOCs) are the very devil. Essentially, the complaint is that having a ...

The first ever MOOC I took had 160,000 people signed up for it. The forums were buzzing with activity. New posts were being added every few minutes. If I had any question at all, it had already been ...

A majority of college and university students in the U.S. are female, but MOOCs flip that balance and then some. And in some courses, like engineering and computer science, participants are almost ...

Most teachers hope to encourage a sense of community in their classes, believing that rich student interaction is an indication of deep learning. When students can reformulate the class material to ...

In November 2011 I was taking one of the first MOOCs from Stanford. At that time, many new MOOCs were being announced and I started Class Central as a way to keep track of them and figure out what I ...

The top five free online courses of all time follow no pattern whatsoever. One covers programming, two are about natural sciences and two others examine brain topics from very different perspectives, ...

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 ...

RMIT University provides funding as a strategic partner of The Conversation AU. One of my Phd students is studying how parents make decisions about education for their children (you can participate in ...