Nation Oct 14 Pilot program expands student aid for non-traditional education By Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press
Education Apr 02 Who is taking MOOCs? Teachers, says MIT-Harvard study A new MIT-Harvard study released on Wednesday finds that nearly 40 percent of learners who take open online courses are teachers. That finding has researchers wondering whether they can better design online courses once predicted to upend students’ experience to… By Kirk Carapezza, WGBH
Education Dec 04 Next online experiments in higher ed focus on flexibility Some of the country’s most rigorous research universities have a new obsession: flexibility. As the institutions contemplate a more modular future, experiments with blended learning may provide an early glimpse at their plans. By Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed
Education Aug 27 Still little consensus on role of massive, online courses in higher education Massive, open, online courses could be reshaping the typical college classroom. Tonight, PBS NewsHour Weekend Anchor Hari Sreenivasan looks at how in the third story in his Rethinking College series. By Kyla Calvert Mason, WGBH News
Education Aug 27 New degree program is big test for MOOC-style higher ed Advocates of online higher education hope this first-ever attempt by an elite institution to offer an entire computer-science graduate program in a MOOC-style format will prove the value of so-called massively open online courses. By Timothy Pratt, The Hechinger Report
Aug 24 Watch Can online courses replace a campus education? By PBS News Hour Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that anyone can take from anywhere in the world, are the future of higher education or the vehicle of its demise, depending on your perspective. Hari Sreenivasan talks with the man who first created… Continue watching