MOOCs first landed in the spotlight last year, when Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford professor, offered a free artificial-intelligence course, attracting 160,000 students in 190 nations. Teachin... Read more
America is in trouble. Emerging economic powers China and India are heavily investing in educating the world’s future workers while we squabble about punishing teachers and coddling children... Read more
So there’s a lot of enthusiasm for online education. Of the many arguments I’ve seen, these make the most sense: First, online education gives people access to higher education who otherwis... Read more
Is the era of the ivy-walled college coming to an end? How much will technology reshape what we think of as the college experience? See what the experts had to say. Higher education is rapid... Read more
The response ranges from curiosity to fear of losing a crucial competition A few months ago, free online courses from prestigious universities were a rarity. Now, they are the cause for anno... Read more
Quite possibly, but an education just from YouTube videos would miss the true point of a college education. This past February, as one of the keynote speakers invited to contribute to a live... Read more
Last semester he taught 100,000 in an online course on machine learning Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explai... Read more
In the United States, only 57 percent of blacks and Latinos graduated from high school One of today’s most challenging yet promising markets is the educational system. If you want to see sta... Read more
Currently, the degree is the only meaningful “unit” of education to which employers give any credence. Jailbreak verb. 1 To get out of a restricted mode of operation. 2 To enable use of a pr... Read more
Content mastery is no longer a relevant skill for the majority of college majors Our university system is bloated, inefficient, too expensive, and increasingly out-of-sync with a digi... Read more
Bill Gates predicts that, “It’s very clear that five years from now, on the web, for free…you will be able to find the greatest lectures in the world.” Higher education is becoming ch... Read more
This time we will be looking to private finance and perhaps sponsorship A new type of privately-funded science and technology university has been announced by the universities ministe... Read more
Fair warning: This article will piss off a lot of you. I can say that with confidence because it’s about Peter Thiel. And Thiel – the PayPal co-founder, hedge fund manager and venture capita... Read more
One of the reasons we spend so much time talking about the music and news industries, is because the disruption and upheaval happening in those industries right now are likely to impact near... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The structure of the university in the 21st century is changing rapidly after its evolution into a multiversity in the 20th century. But as universities are being restruc... Read more
