Despite booming enrollment and enthusiastic administrators, scant research offers little evidence that online courses are effective
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MOOC Brigade: Can Online Courses Keep Students from Cheating?
As more colleges debate whether to give students credit for taking massive open online courses, tech companies are looking into using everything from webcam proctors to retina scans to cut down on cheating
MOOC Brigade: What I Learned From Learning Online
Our tech writer assesses his six-week experience in Coursera’s massive open online course on gamification
Rethink College: 3 Takeaways from the TIME Summit on Higher Education
At a gathering of more than 100 college leaders and thinkers, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says college costs are too high, graduation rates are too low and there is too little accountability
Can an Online Degree Really Help You Get a Job?
Online degree programs’ reputations have taken a beating, thanks to unscrupulous diploma mills and a lack of respect from HR pros. That perception may finally be changing, but it still pays to be careful.
MOOC Brigade: Free Online Classes, Speeded Up a Notch
I’m almost done with the six-week course on gamification I’ve been taking as part of TIME’s look at Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). I’ve watched most of the video lectures by class leader Kevin Werbach of the University of …
MOOC Brigade: With Free Online Classes, Guilt Is Part of the Bargain
One of TIME’s personal-finance writers on the trouble with trying to get something for nothing
MOOC Brigade: Who Is Taking Massive Open Online Courses, And Why?
Sure, knowledge is power and all that, but how many Coursera students are willing to make a sizable time commitment just to get a certificate of completion?
MOOC Brigade: Back to School, 26 Years Later
As Coursera signs up more top-tier schools, TIME’s technology writer weighs in on the gamification class taught by Wharton’s Kevin Werbach
MOOC Brigade: Will Massive, Open Online Courses Revolutionize Higher Education?
On the plus side, MOOCs are free, open to anyone and taught by professors at prestigious universities. On the downside, they have low completion rates, and critics questions the utility of students being graded by their peers. …