“The biggest beneficiaries of online education programmes are those least likely to use them, according to data collected by one of the world’s largest providers of such course …” (more)
[Jonathan Moules, FT.com, 22 September]
“Three years ago everyone was talking about Coursera, which had begun partnering with some of the world’s most elite colleges to offer free courses. There was overheated hype, as pundits speculated that it could be a magic bullet to bring down college costs …” (more)
[Jeffrey Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 August]
“A prominent member of the open education movement, former Open University Vice-Chancellor Sir John Daniel, has criticised online education provider Coursera for not making its materials available under creative commons licensing …” (more)
[Megan Clement, The Conversation, 28 June]
“Along with increasing acceptance of online courses as part of a changing higher education landscape comes controversy over their value, The New York Times’ Tamar Lewin reports. On the heels of last month’s announcement that Coursera, one of the biggest online education platforms in the world, will partner with state universities …” (more)
[Julia Lawrence, Education News, 24 June]
“An open letter to Daphne Koller, co-founder and co-president of Coursera and professor of computer science at Stanford. Dear Professor Koller: …” (more)
[Bob Meister, n+1, 17 May]
“Today we are proud to welcome Yale University to Coursera’s network, bringing the total number of educational partners offering courses on our platform up to 70 …” (more)
[Coursera Blog, 15 May]
“Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, from dozens of universities, announced Wednesday a partnership with several publishers to provide portions of certain textbooks free for students to use while they take the courses …” (more)
[Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 8 May]
“A major global online university network is to enter the teacher-training market for the first time. Coursera, based in the United States, has announced partnerships with schools of education to provide content for free online training materials …” (more)
[Sean Coughlan, BBC News, 1 May]
“In January, the University of Edinburgh became the first UK university to offer massive open online courses on one of the big US Mooc platforms, Coursera …” (more)
[Chris Parr, Times Higher Education, 18 April]
“Massive open online courses have gained renown among academics for their impressive enrollment figures and, conversely, their unimpressive completion rates. What accounts for the high attrition in MOOCs, and what does it mean? …” (more)
[Steve Kolowich, Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 April]
“If you wonder why your university hasn’t linked up with Coursera, the massively popular provider of free online classes, it may help to know the company is contractually obliged to turn away the vast majority of American universities …” (more)
[Ry Rivard, Inside Higher Ed, 22 March]
“It’s hard to believe that Coursera has been in business for only a year, as very few companies can match it for the amount of news and hype its product has received …” (more)
[Julia Lawrence, Education News, 8 March]
“Yesterday, we welcomed 29 new universities to the Coursera community. The incredible faculty at these universities bring with them many years of experience providing top quality education to students from around the world …” (more)
[Coursera Blog, 21 February]
“One of the emerging giants among online universities has announced that it is signing up a further 29 universities, including institutions in the US, Europe and Asia …” (more)
[Sean Coughlan, BBC News, 21 February]
“Students regularly drop out of massive open online courses before they come to term. For a professor to drop out is less common. But that is what happened on Saturday …” (more)
[Steve Kolowich, Chronicle of Higher Education, 18 February]
“Since Vanderbilt announced its partnership with Coursera back in September, I’ve been fielding calls and emails from colleagues at other teaching centers interested in learning about our process for launching this digital learning project …” (more)
[Agile Learning, 6 February]
“Maybe it was inevitable that one of the new massive open online courses would crash. After all, MOOCs are being launched with considerable speed, not to mention hype …” (more)
[Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 4 February]
“More than 300,000 people have signed up to the University of Edinburgh’s free massive open online courses (Moocs) since they were first announced in July 2012, it has been revealed …” (more)
[David Matthews, Times Higher Education, 2 February]
“One of the biggest developers of college-level online courses, Silicon Valley’s Coursera, thinks it has figured out an online honesty test to help ensure that enrolled students are really doing coursework themselves …” (more)
[George Anders, Forbes, 9 January]
“In August, four months after Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng started the online education company Coursera, its free college courses had drawn in a million users, a faster launching than either Facebook or Twitter …” (more)
[Tamar Lewin, New York Times, 6 January]
