Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the new wave of distance education offered by elite institutions like Harvard and MIT, are moving into high schools, and—contrary to what many think—that could ...

Open online courses offer the promise of education for everyone, but in K-12, their best application is helping high-achieving students get ahead. At ISTE 2013, Scott Garrigan, Lehigh University ...

MOOCs hold great potential to expand K-12 hybrid, or blended, learning, and also offer potential to increase student access to courses that might not be available in their brick-and-mortar schools, ...

Instructure has launched a series of massive open online courses (MOOCs) for K-12 teachers, students and parents, including two that use Minecraft to help teachers implement gamification best ...

When 200 students sign up for a course, educators normally think of ways to split up the classroom into more manageable sizes. But for the University of Miami Global Academy, an online high school run ...

“Even young kids have gotten very adept at Minecraft, so it can be quite intimidating for teachers,” said Jason Schmidt, an instructional technologist for Bennington Public Schools who will teach the ...

High school teens completed more than 15,000 courses last summer from Udacity, a MOOC platform. According to one of the most popular International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) ...

More universities will allow students to earn credits from taking lectures from the country's massive open online courses (K-MOOC) this year. The Ministry of Education said Wednesday that it is ...