Coursera's co-founder, Andrew Ng, argues that most college-level classes don't need to run 12 weeks. In many cases, shorter is better.

Since many classes offered on Udemy and Coursera are MOOCs, or “massive open online courses” with thousands of students, student-teacher interaction is practically impossible.

Coursera is a top-rated hub for online learning. We've broken down how much Coursera costs and some of the best courses available.

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) joins the revolution in on-line education through its partnership with leading massive open online course (MOOC) platform Coursera. An acclaimed Los ...

As part of efforts to employ technology to enhance the Princeton academic experience and enable faculty to extend their teaching beyond the physical borders of the campus, the University will explore ...

Online learning startup Coursera has formed partnerships with 10 public universities and university systems to develop courses that can be taken for credit either online or in a blended classroom ...

The new industry of large-scale online education will garner an important measure of academic respectability Thursday when the American Council on Education announces that four courses of the ...

Last year, the buzz around the potential of online courses (particularly MOOC platforms) reached new heights, and this year is already shaping up to be the one in which online course platforms and ...

The University of Washington and 11 other universities will begin distributing courses in a range of disciplines through Coursera, the online education platform started by Stanford Computer ...

Coursera, potentially the most disruptive startup that American higher education has ever seen, has rocketed to prominence with a model that seems almost too good to be true. It offers in-depth ...

Online-education pioneer Coursera tops 1 million signups for its Internet-based classes, with much of the enrollment coming from Brazil, India, China and other non-U.S. countries.

With the addition of more universities, languages and courses, combined with certificates and transfer credit, Coursera is beginning to look and feel like a real, global online university.