With the addition of Princeton to its list of partners, edX, the non-profit MOOC provider that Harvard and MIT founded in 2012, now has more Ivy League partners than its largest for-profit competitor, ...

"Massive open online courses" — or MOOCs — are very popular and accessible forms of e-learning seen on platforms like edX and ...

Anant Agarwal, the longtime leader of edX, saw his MIT online course about circuits go viral a decade ago. He says his focus is on educational opportunity, not profits. Nearly 10 years later, Coursera ...

If you were of internet age in 2012, you probably remember the gushing coverage that welcomed platforms like edX or Coursera. Media interest has fizzled considerably since The New York Times declared ...

Two providers of massive open online courses are expanding their course catalogs to try to find a larger global audience. Coursera and edX both announced this week they are doubling the number of ...

With universities all over the world looking to quickly move face-to-face classes online, massive open online course companies Coursera and edX have stepped in to offer access to their vast portfolios ...

As new models of digital learning sweep across higher education, colleges and universities across the globe are scrambling to get on board and make their course catalogs available to a wider audience ...

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Shortly after the “Big Three” MOOC providers launched in 2012, nearly everyone focused on user numbers as a sign of their scale and reach. For anyone still keeping tabs on the ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) stormed onto the education scene years ago with great fanfare. And they continue to be written and talked about extensively. Names like Udacity, edX and Coursera ...

2U, a SaaS platform that helps nonprofits and colleges run online universities, plans to acquire all the assets of Harvard and MIT-founded edX for a deal north of $600 million, according to multiple ...

There is an eminent revolution about to happen in the online education sector. Although initiatives by MIT, Harvard and other leading universities such as Coursera, Edx, Udacity are generating a lot ...