News Embracing technology is critically important, as 21st-century jobs will increasingly require an educated and highly skilled workforce. Over the next 10 years, 5 out of 8 new jobs and 8 out of 10 of the highest paying positions in the United States will be in careers related to science, technology,... more

News Online learning isn’t going anywhere. According to the Sloan Consortium/Chronicle of Higher Education Survey, 70% of college presidents say online learning is a critical piece to their university’s long term strategy – this summer, Coursera hit the 1 million student mark, with people participating from 196 countries. Current online learning... more

News Coursera, a company that partners with universities to create and offer massive open online courses (MOOCs), has announced plans to offer students verified certificates for the completion of select MOOCs for a slight fee. The certificates do not include credits toward a degree, but supporters say they offer proof that a... more

News A U.K.-based platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs) to rival established providers in the U.S. has been launched by the Open University. Futurelearn will carry courses from 12 U.K. institutions–including the University of London and the University of Leeds–that will be available to students worldwide free of charge. This follows in... more

News Duke University is working along two distinct paths to expand online education access on its campus. Duke is partnering with Coursera, an online education platform, to allow professors to design and offer free online versions of their most popular courses to a worldwide audience. Duke has also signed up with 2U to... more

News Providers of free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are bringing in revenue by selling information about high-performing students to potential employers. Yesterday Coursera announced its employee-matching service, called Coursera Career Services, and some high-profile tech companies–including Facebook and Twitter–already have signed up. Coursera stresses that the program is and opt-in service... more

GET Ideas In the industrial era, organizations became more powerful by being bigger; in the Social Era, companies can also be powerful by working with others. While the industrial era was about making a lot of stuff and convincing enough buyers to consume it, the Social Era is about the power of... more

News Today, the American Council on Education, the leading umbrella group for higher education, and Coursera, a Silicon Valley provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), announced a pilot project to determine whether some MOOC offerings are similar enough to traditional college courses that they should be eligible for credit. The council’s credit... more