WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Shortly after the “Big Three” MOOC providers launched in 2012, nearly everyone focused on user numbers as a sign of their scale and reach. For anyone still keeping tabs on the ...

Anant Agarwal, the longtime leader of edX, saw his MIT online course about circuits go viral a decade ago. He says his focus is on educational opportunity, not profits. Nearly 10 years later, Coursera ...

Two providers of massive open online courses are expanding their course catalogs to try to find a larger global audience. Coursera and edX both announced this week they are doubling the number of ...

How can a nonprofit organization that gives away courses bring in enough revenue to at least cover its costs? That’s the dilemma facing edX, a project led by Harvard University and the Massachusetts ...

Higher ed is trying to wrap its collective head around the announcement of 2U's $800 million acquisition of edX. There is much to chew on regarding what this deal means for current edX and 2U partners ...

Here’s the conundrum with corporate online learning: there are so many classes available from sites like Coursera, edX, and Udacity that companies don’t know what content to offer their employees. And ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) stormed onto the education scene years ago with great fanfare. And they continue to be written and talked about extensively. Names like Udacity, edX and Coursera ...