Coursera signs on 29 more schools to offer free online courses

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

Five Coursera classes now approved for college credit

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.

Now you can get college credit with Coursera

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.

Coursera raises $16M for free online education for the masses

Two Stanford University professors and a dream to educate the world, that’s what started Coursera. The service offers university-level courses to anyone with an Internet for free and just raised $16 million from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & …