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Umbrella Group Backs Unbundling

ACE continues online experimentation with proposed pool of general education courses from colleges and providers like StraighterLine.

A Platform for All Purposes

EdCast, a new online education platform provider, wants to use open-source software to help institutions teach courses to on-campus and online students all at once.

Less Prescriptive in California

California's Democratic leaders have taken a gentler approach in push for the state's colleges to get creative with online courses, including with a $50 million award fund.
Opinion

No Apologies

It's time for students who leave MOOCs and the professors who teach them to stop apologizing, writes Jeffrey Pomerantz.

My Course, Your Content

A report on MOOCs in Maryland classrooms delivers encouraging results, but faculty members say shaping a course around another instructor's content can be tricky.

A Question of Quality

Coursera has come under attack after an instructor conducted a social experiment on his students, but the MOOC provider is sticking with its hands-off policies, saying they promote academic freedom.

The Mystery of the Missing MOOC

A social experiment gone wrong? A protest against Facebook? Performance art? Twitter sleuths attempt to figure out why a Coursera MOOC derailed after one week. UPDATE: The professor speaks.

From MOOC to Shining MOOC

University of Pennsylvania instructors and State Department diplomats hope massive online courses will attract more international students to American colleges and universities.