MOOCs hold great potential to expand K-12 hybrid, or blended, learning, and also offer potential to increase student access to courses that might not be available in their brick-and-mortar schools, ...

Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the new wave of distance education offered by elite institutions like Harvard and MIT, are moving into high schools, and—contrary to what many think—that could ...

Open online courses offer the promise of education for everyone, but in K-12, their best application is helping high-achieving students get ahead. At ISTE 2013, Scott Garrigan, Lehigh University ...

When 200 students sign up for a course, educators normally think of ways to split up the classroom into more manageable sizes. But for the University of Miami Global Academy, an online high school run ...

Instructure has launched a series of massive open online courses (MOOCs) for K-12 teachers, students and parents, including two that use Minecraft to help teachers implement gamification best ...

“Even young kids have gotten very adept at Minecraft, so it can be quite intimidating for teachers,” said Jason Schmidt, an instructional technologist for Bennington Public Schools who will teach the ...

High school teens completed more than 15,000 courses last summer from Udacity, a MOOC platform. According to one of the most popular International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) ...

Futurelearn, the U.K.’s first large-scale alliance between traditional higher education institutions aimed at testing the waters of MOOCs (massively open online courses), has bolstered the number of ...

They have been labelled as the future of education and dismissed as a fad, but so far much of the attention on MOOCs has been on their value in the college sphere. Now, however, educators are ...