Northwestern is developing new, free massive open online courses (MOOCs) on the digital Coursera platform, after terminating its for-credit, tuition-charging Semester Online program this past spring.

Don’t know if MOOCs have caught your eye (massive open online course) but these free-to-take course modules are run by proper universities and seem a rather interesting and positive development for ...

Erik Meijer's Introduction to Functional Programming MOOC has just started. If this is a topic you want to know more about, this free class could be an ideal route. Presented on the edX platform, ...

Reactive programming is a buzz phrase that seems to be growing in popularity and now you can sign up to a course on it taught by, among others, Martin Odersky of Scala fame. Reactive Programming is a ...

Students currently enrolled in for-credit courses as part of a CU degree on Coursera program are eligible for free access to non-credit (open) versions of 200+ CU courses. As a current student ...

A totally MOOC-based master's degree in computer science announced last spring has opened for business with about 375 students. The new program, being delivered by Georgia Institute of Technology's ...

The nonprofit MOOC platform edX, originally started by MIT and Harvard University at a time when pundits predicted large-scale online courses could replace college for some people, is trying yet ...

Have massive open online courses emerged from the Trough of Disillusionment to the Slopes of Enlightenment? Wherever MOOCs belong on the Gartner Hype Cycle, one thing is clear: there are more courses ...

What may be the most successful online graduate degree program in the United States - the Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) - ...