If people are willing to pay $2,000 or more per credit when a course is taken within a degree-granting institution, but less than 5 percent of that for the same course stands alone, that's a pretty strong indication of where the value in the college course truly lies.

A proposed compact among the states unveiled by educational organizations and state officials Thursday would create a kind of common market for online...

I decided to go back to school this year, although rather than travel the well-trodden path of specialization by obtaining a graduate degree, I decided it was time to re-do my undergraduate BA, this time taking all the courses I never got around to the first time around.

College is not just an information dump; it provides experiences that give context, opportunities and a purpose to the knowledge gained.

The ongoing discussions of distance learning are gaining in intensity, and I see a few signs that the sophistication of the discussion is growing. Distance learning is being presented as a low-cost way to disseminate information around the globe.

The problem isn't too many Bachelor's diplomas or too many online courses. The problem is the current system's failure to develop essential competences in a cost-effective way.

Georgetown University is joining one of the most prominent ventures in online higher education, a Web platform known as edX that provides courses from...

Today, a college degree comes with both student loans and career uncertainty. We used to count on college as the answer to the job market, but now we have to count on ourselves to take responsibility for our careers.

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What will happen when universities form partnerships with companies like Coursera? How will the coupling of the university with an online distributio...

There's a rumble going through the world of higher education. A sense that providing your undergraduates with a traditional degree may not be enough to keep your university atop the rankings much longer.

SAN FRANCISCO — When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered its first free online course this spring, Ashwith Rego jumped at the chan...

Is it possible to gain the education and the intellectual development associated with a traditional bricks-and-mortar university curriculum through a largely online course of study?

Coursera, a company offering online courses from top universities, quadrupled their partnerships yesterday and gained the University of Pennsylvania a...

Community-college students enrolled in online courses fail and drop out more often than those whose coursework is classroom-based, according to a new ...

Picture this: You're sitting at a terminal with multiple screens. You're at once being lectured, taking a test and seeing how you're doing. This feedback loop doubles your productivity and improves your retention, too. At Carnegie Mellon University, this hyper-interactive system is called statistics class.

A new rule from the Department of Education puts use of our successful GI Bill to attend online colleges in jeopardy by placing restrictions on how much many online universities receive in federal aid.

Michael Tricoli was a middle manager looking for a leg up in his career, so he got an online M.B.A. from Northeastern University. Well, not only fr...