Are the MOOCs now ready for prime time? Like a lot of people, I’ve been pretty amazed by how quickly these massive open online courses have spread over the past year. First, there was the sheer number of students who signed up: some two million have enrolled this year, a figure that astounds me no matter how often I hear it. And it’s hard to keep up with the seemingly daily announcements of newContinue Reading »

A couple of weeks ago, while discussing the announcement of the Harvard / MIT edX initiative, I included a brief recap of what’s been happening over the last six months in the land of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which began as follows:

Throughout the fall 2011 semester, a group of well-known Stanford professors had been running an unorthodox experiment by letting over 10Continue Reading »