New online course encourages students to cheat… for science

May 14, 2013 12:51 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

One unintended use for massive open online courses, dubbed "MOOCs," is to help professors better understand the mechanics of cheating in online learning.

U.S. Education Secretary’s stern challenge to entrepreneurs: ‘We have so far to go’

May 1, 2013 2:35 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke frankly to a roomful of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs about the crisis in our current education system.

Stanford for everybody! Professor launches startup to make elite education available to all

April 15, 2013 10:00 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

NovoEd launched today to make access to courses from prestigious educational institutions available to anyone, starting with Stanford.

Eduson.tv brings business education to professionals in emerging economies

April 9, 2013 12:43 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Eduston.tv launches an online business education portal for people in BRIC countries and reveals $1 million in seed funding.

Coursera resurrects the lost art of underwater basketweaving

April 1, 2013 1:20 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

In honor of April Fools Day, Coursera releases a class on underwater basketweaving, making education about this spiritual, artistic, and functional practice accessible to anyone with internet and a tub.

Thinkful’s custom code tutoring may help you land a job

February 26, 2013 9:41 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Thinkful's virtual tutoring platform provides personalized training for college students in practical skills like web development and design.

Coursera signs on 29 more schools to offer free online courses

February 20, 2013 10:04 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

Ed-tech startup Coursera has announced that 29 more schools will offer courses on its online platform, bringing its total to 62 schools.

Quad Learning builds $11M bridge from community to higher education

February 14, 2013 11:15 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Education startup Quad Learning helps students transition from community college to four-year universities to lower the cost of earning a bachelor's degree.

Five Coursera classes now approved for college credit

February 6, 2013 9:12 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

A big step forward for online education: Coursera has announced that students can now apply credit to their college degree for five of its free courses.

How to keep your resolutions: 25 apps for a happier, healthier, better 2013

January 1, 2013 7:00 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

For all your goal-fulfillment needs and wants, here's a great list of apps, websites, and cool services to help you become healthier, wealthier, and wiser in the new year.

Now you can get college credit with Coursera

October 30, 2012 11:56 AM Ciara Byrne
Ciara Byrne

For the first time a brick and mortar educational institution, Antioch University, will offer Coursera MOOCs (massive open online courses) for credit as part of a bachelor's degree program. This announcement could be one of the first tremors in a seismic shift in higher education.

Dear Minnesota, free online education is a good thing (yeah, really)

October 19, 2012 10:16 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Coursera's slogan is "Higher education that overcomes the boundaries of geography, time, and money." Except, of course, for the state boundaries of Minnesota.

LFE gathers experts so we can all learn from hands-on experience

October 3, 2012 4:05 PM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

The emphasis at LFE is on getting experts who use their hands or bodies for work, like carpenters.