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In spring 2012, the first MIT/edX MOOC, "Circuits and Electronics" (6.002x), was open to students around the world. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard has been analyzing data gene…

As universities dive deeper into online learning and MOOCs, what role can a platform play in meeting online learning goals? At Stanford, we discovered that developing and using the Class2Go open-so…

During the first week of March 2013, about 80,000 new students were added to the Vanderbilt University community, thanks to the launch of Vanderbilt's first two MOOCs. MOOCs, our own as well a…

The blogosphere likes to talk about what benefits MOOCs bring to the student, but what about to the institution offering them? Specifically, to the "traditional online" or face-to-face co…

As enrollments in MOOCs expanded dramatically in the summer of 2012, students who completed these courses began asking how they might earn academic credit that could be applied toward a degree. As …

Institutions face new challenges in designing and implementing MOOCs while keeping the focus on student learning. The scale and scope of MOOCs raise the stakes for colleges and universities and off…

In this session, the speaker will address the mix of excitement and caution that have characterized his experience teaching online, first in a small online class and then in a massive one. He will …