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 ...

While Massive Open Online Courses, commonly known as MOOCs, may be all the rage at the higher-education level, the trend has been slow to make its way into the K-12 arena. But MOOCs are gradually ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

“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 ...