Researchers are trying to understand why the vast majority of students fail to finish free online classes and who is signing up for the classes to begin with.

Depending on to whom you talk, the University of Connecticut is either starving for more state investment or it is already pigging out.

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At international education meetings, representatives of various countries like to boast about how they have become higher ed hubs, or have built education cities, or have created education zones.

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Amid the various influences that massive open online courses have had on higher education in their short life so far -- the topic of a daylong conference here Monday -- this may be among the more unexpected

An interactive data visual of publicly available data for MOOCs from Coursera, edX, Udacity, and MITx.