Open courseware that incorporates video lectures costs the most to make available on the web. Open courseware isn’t the end of higher education, as some have feared, but rather a recruiting tool that ...

Third, the overall efficacy of digital courseware programs was a major concern for adoption, as listed by 26 percent of faculty respondents. Due to these major barriers noted, the survey found that ...

Higher education has long faced a new financial normal—including pressure to hold down tuition and fee increases, cuts in governmental support, and increased competition from new players. Changes in ...

A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. It’s ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The enthusiastic debate about digital courseware’s adoption and its impact on student outcomes is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Call it OpenCourseWare 2.0. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today a new chapter in its popular effort to offer lecture notes and other materials from its courses free online. When ...

“What has the impact been of MOOCs on MIT OCW usage?” Matthew Rascoff (@mzrascoff) tweeted earlier this week. It’s a great question. Have massive open online classes spurred more interest in MIT Open ...