By DAVID MYTON Over the past six years the MOOC has whirled through the Gartner Hype Cycle - sparked into life by an innovation trigger (great idea!), up the peak of inflated expectations (they’ll replace universities), down the trough of disillusionment (they're not that good), ascending the...
Beginning next week MITx on edX will offer a philosophy course via a MOOC which will enable students to obtain a verified certificate and have their work “graded and commented upon by professional philosophers”. Learners from any background, anywhere in the world, “can pursue the certificate option...
She is no doubt some kind of genius but Coursera chief Professor Daphne Koller doesn’t inhabit some other-worldly dimension in which the enigmatic and the ambiguous are essential vocabulary. She talks common sense, and she talks it good. Coursera has been in the MOOC business since 2011,...