MOOCs make an elite education available to anyone, typically for free but without course credit. But how completely can online courses reproduce the college experience? Lexington writer and entrepreneur Jonathan Haber wanted to find out. This January, he set out to earn a “one-year MOOC BA. read more
Many of the people you meet in college will be useful networking assets to help you later in life. Lastly, MOOC's tend not to offer the kind of specialized and specific courses you might want later in your college education, after you've finished the basics. read more
MOOCs aren’t going anywhere for the time being, and for now the real winners are the students who can expand their knowledge and skills beyond what is possible in their high-school classrooms. Whether this will help lead to the demise of college as we know it is another question altogether. read more