With 150 million tweets across 16 days, and 80,000 a minute when Usain Bolt won his 200 meters title, plus 1 billion official page impressions on Facebook, the London 2012 Olympics was crowned as the "first social media Games."

The mainly-UK backed MOOC platform, FutureLearn, was unveiled yesterday at a press conference held at the British Library, which is one of the three British cultural institutions lending its weight to the Open University (OU)-owned and built MOOC platform.

The University of Alabama has faced a barrage of criticism over the past several days, after its student newspaper published an account of black students being denied membership into white sororities because of their race.

The pangolin does not make headlines the way elephants or rhinos do.

Starbucks says guns are no longer welcome in its cafes, though it is stopping short of an outright ban on firearms.

Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights activist, was among five women activists released Wednesday from a Tehran prison where she had been jailed since 2010.

Maite Nieto thought the job she was offered at a bank in Madrid would be a great career move.

The Man Booker Prize for English fiction will allow authors from any country to compete for one of the world's best known literary awards from next year

Make no mistake, Alabama's community college system is a more affordable option for students seeking access to education that can lead to lucrative, technical careers or set them on a track to a higher degree.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will this fall package some of its online courses into more cohesive sequences, just as edX prepares to roll out certificates of completion using identity verification.