With the addition of Princeton to its list of partners, edX, the non-profit MOOC provider that Harvard and MIT founded in 2012, now has more Ivy League partners than its largest for-profit competitor, ...

With universities all over the world looking to quickly move face-to-face classes online, massive open online course companies Coursera and edX have stepped in to offer access to their vast portfolios ...

Two of the major MOOC providers in the U.S. announced new executives yesterday. EdX announced the appointment of Wendy Cebula as the company's president and chief operating officer; Coursera named ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I share insights from the intersection of education and industry. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) stormed onto the education ...

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 ...

It’s almost as if there’s an arms race in online education. Which MOOC platform can expand the fastest? Place your bets now. On the heels of edX’s announcement that it will be expanding ...

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 ...

There is an eminent revolution about to happen in the online education sector. Although initiatives by MIT, Harvard and other leading universities such as Coursera, Edx, Udacity are generating a lot ...

The massive open online course providers Coursera and edX made competing top-level executive announcements Monday afternoon: Wendy Cebula, former COO of Vistaprint, was named president of edX, while ...