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No Apologies
It's time for students who leave MOOCs and the professors who teach them to stop apologizing, writes Jeffrey Pomerantz.
My Course, Your Content
A report on MOOCs in Maryland classrooms delivers encouraging results, but faculty members say shaping a course around another instructor's content can be tricky.
A Question of Quality
Coursera has come under attack after an instructor conducted a social experiment on his students, but the MOOC provider is sticking with its hands-off policies, saying they promote academic freedom.
The Mystery of the Missing MOOC
A social experiment gone wrong? A protest against Facebook? Performance art? Twitter sleuths attempt to figure out why a Coursera MOOC derailed after one week. UPDATE: The professor speaks.
From MOOC to Shining MOOC
University of Pennsylvania instructors and State Department diplomats hope massive online courses will attract more international students to American colleges and universities.
Data, Data Everywhere
Participants in the Gates-funded MOOC Research Initiative discuss their results -- and the pains of working with MOOC data.
Rhetoric Check
A national faculty coalition continues its anti-MOOC offensive, but some critics say the concerns are overblown.
Accreditor for Upstarts
Two groups want to create new bodies that would review the academic quality of individual online courses or non-college providers.