Open online courses offer the promise of education for everyone, but in K-12, their best application is helping high-achieving students get ahead. At ISTE 2013, Scott Garrigan, Lehigh University ...

Futurelearn, the U.K.'s first large-scale alliance between traditional higher education institutions aimed at testing the waters of MOOCs (massively open online courses), has bolstered the number ...

MOOCs, which are already popular in higher education, are making a move to K-12 classrooms, with great potential for expanded learning.

But MOOCs are gradually showing up on the K-12 landscape. Michigan Virtual University and Kent State University recently launched a MOOC aimed at high school students interested in becoming ...

Thoughts from an online learning summit of MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, and Stanford about the role elite institutions can play in shaping expectations throughout K-12 education.

More universities will allow students to earn credits from taking lectures from the country’s massive open online courses (K-MOOC) this year. The Ministry of Education said Wednesday that it is ...

Microsoft's education team on Monday unveiled five massive open online courses on digital pedagogy and leadership aimed at administrators in the K-12 sector. The MOOCs, which will be offered through ...

High school teens completed more than 15,000 courses last summer from Udacity, a MOOC platform. According to one of the most popular International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) ...

The U.K. MOOCs alliance, Futurelearn, which was announced last December and will be offering its first free courses "from mid-2013" with the aim of creating a globally accessible British higher ...

MOOCs could have big implications for K-12 learning The term “MOOCs”–an acronym for massive open online courses–is no stranger to the higher-education community. Providers such as Coursera, edX, and ...