Massive open online courses (MOOCs) — distance-learning courses open to an unlimited number of people on the web — are estimated to become an $8.5 billion industry by 2020, up from almost $2 billion ...

Sebastian Thrun threw a wrench in the MOOC model by declaring that massive open online courses don't work for higher education. What's next for the online learning trend? It was about a year ago that ...

With the troubled economy, many people are facing unemployment or looking for a way to learn new skills to make themselves more appealing on the job market. For some, this means pursuing an advanced ...

Sebastian Thrun electrified the world in late 2011 when 160,000 people from around the world signed up to take the free online class that he and colleague Peter Norvig offered at Stanford University ...

This article is part of the collection: A Lifetime of Back to School: Microcredentials in Higher Education. No one owns the term “master’s degree.” But upstart education providers dream of getting a ...

Online learning, or e-learning, has reached new heights in recent years, with an enormous range of courses now available at the click of a button. The e-learning market is attractive for businesses as ...

Udacity, a startup dedicated to helping to democratize education and make it available online to the masses, has just raised $15 million for its Series B round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz.

Accredible, which provides online credentials as a service, is announcing a partnership today to provide digital certificates for Udacity’s burgeoning nanodegree program. The startup has created an ...

Online educational startup Udacity, with whom I had a very positive experience while taking their CS 101 course Before, students watched the videos and did homework assignments online and then took a ...

Educators and policymakers have long dreamed of providing universal, low cost, first-class higher education. Their wish may come true soon thanks to an unlikely source: Silicon Valley. The mecca of ...