Moocs/open educational resources

Microcredentials designed by Google and IBM will add practical training in key roles to traditional academic offerings, says chief executive of edtech firm

Online education firm had vacancy at top since departure of chief executive Andy Hancock in March

With most major players making redundancies and tightening their belts, edtech has faced a difficult year, but could moves into career development save the industry?

Expanding the blended or online learning currently on offer will not be enough to achieve reskilling agenda, says Betty Vandenbosch

One of the biggest original Mooc providers is ‘entering a new chapter’, its chief executive has told staff, amid a gloomier financial climate

Financial difficulties faced by major players like FutureLearn show Mooc market ‘appears to be on a drastic downturn’

United Nations report examines how academic credits can be validated more easily

Open University confirms plans to sell its stake in company it helped to found

Apprenticeships provider that became UK’s first edtech ‘unicorn’ to offer candidates chance to study ‘debt-free’

Coursera co-founder warns that faculty are ‘burning the candle at multiple ends’

Free online courses have much to offer professors, including feedback on their own performance

Universities urged to work alongside edtech companies and other online players to improve offering to students

Measures to limit the dominance of Western universities in online learning may be required, says Getachew Engida

Nobel laureate among professors vowing to move courses on to non-profit alternative platform after deal with 2U

China and India embrace creation of online courses to support universities that lack the capacity to create their own digital programmes

As most universities digitise all their teaching, they are finding it very difficult to deliver education online. Gorgi Krlev offers three challenges to conventional wisdom

Improving remote learning may be smartest move universities can make, quality chief advises

McGraw-Hill and Cengage abandon union after government demands heavy culling

Australian Qualifications Framework overhaul also recommends decoupling of knowledge and skills

In five years, Moocs go from dream of universal education to limited service for higher-end customers

Chief executive Anant Agarwal explains how the Harvard-MIT platform has defied sceptics and financial pressures to stay true to its mission

FutureLearn phases out acronym for massive open online courses as internet learning evolves

Billed as a remedy for career uncertainty, micro-credentials may play into bosses’ hands, critics warn

Increasing use of technology on campus will erode division between online and offline education, according to Jeff Maggioncalda

Tech entrepreneur says there is a fear of AI and automation in Europe and North America while students in Asia see it as an opportunity

If microcredentials could only gain the trust of employers and workers, platforms would have a golden goose on their hands, says Chris Fellingham

New courses from University of London and Imperial College London include platform’s first bachelor’s programme

University of Colorado Boulder master’s programme will ‘bring the laboratory experience’ to students at home

Long-held beliefs about the UK’s hierarchy of institutions do not stand up to scrutiny, and hold back progress, argues Edward Peck

It may be five years since Moocs went mainstream, but Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy believe they still have the potential to reach the hard-to-reach

Following hype over their potential, online courses drained senior management time to the detriment of open educational resources, conference hears

Ang Davies looks at the pros and cons of the University of Manchester’s recent clinical bioinformatics Mooc

Open University vice-chancellor claims that courses curated by technology giants might be more attractive than Russell Group’s offerings

Scholars are increasingly willing to use other people’s data in their research, writes Mark Hahnel 

Online learning design is now a refined art, says Geoff Webster, and universities must show they can produce high-quality courses at a reasonable cost

Tasmanian researchers find it takes 10 hours to plan an hour’s lecture for online students, compared to eight hours for on-campus delivery

University will establish 50 degrees over the next five years

Research highlights concerns around quality despite medium being preferred by many Western universities

Ian Jacobs says visits by hundreds of thousands of international and lifelong learners on short courses will transform campus life

What will hold back the use of technology in higher education over the next five years?

Expansion into ‘digitally advanced market’ confirms platform is ‘firmly on the map’, says chief executive

Scholars and publishers assess some bold responses to the pressures on traditional formats

More than 198,000 people have signed a petition in support of Ahmadreza Djalali

Deakin University will deliver six postgraduate degrees via the online platform

Copyright and intellectual property policy on lecture capture ‘evolving’, says report, but institutions should provide supportive advice to academics

World's top-ranking university announces course on economic development through new collaboration with online platorm edX

Platform to ‘continue developing’ an educational role after pilot broadcast in partnership with UCL

Experiment on online philosophy course marks a new path for humanities Moocs

The Open University's vice-chancellor says now is the moment to turn around decline in part-time study

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Whether or not Moocs live up to the hype, technology’s impact on universities is real and growing, Stanford University’s John Hennessy tells Ellie Bothwell

Daphne Koller says online platform reached millions of learners largely because of the publicity, both good and bad, about Moocs

Leeds and OU programmes signal significant change in online platform’s pricing structure

Both the government and resurgent left-wing groups are promoting ‘red education’ in the country’s universities

McGraw-Hill Education chief executive says companies must work to allay ‘legitimate concerns’ of higher education staff

Sharing data on students’ academic activities will bring the field to a tipping point, says Martin Hall

The school was launched by four students who met on an online course at McGill University

Andrew W. Robinson on the sound pedagogical reasons to swap the industrial, identikit approach to teaching and learning for something less bloody boring

Controversial material can be the most challenging to our intellect, argues Sue House