If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Virtual learning has become a big part of our lives these ...

Udemy is an online learning platform with courses available in subjects ranging from IT to home improvement to the arts and more. The site operates on an open framework, which means that instructors ...

Online learning startup hopes partnership will improve the quality of the education as well as increasing access and graduation rates. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...

Historian Jeremy Adelman is spending this fall teaching "A History of the World since 1300" to more than 50 students at Princeton University — and 80,000 students across the globe. Adelman is among ...

Coursera, an organization that provides online courses and credentialing, now offers a slew of classes related to healthcare to address the growing shortage of skilled healthcare workers, Digital ...

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 Mountain ...

But I always knew that there were a few courses that were still completely free. When you signed up for these courses, you would see an option of “Full Course, No Certificate.” For courses that are ...

Students are taking free online classes just for learning's sake. Mehar Maju goes to a small high school in southern California. She also takes college-level classes on Coursera with millions of ...

Coursera, the venture-funded startup founded by two Stanford professors that has enrolled 2.5 million students in free online courses created in partnership with 33 prestigious universities, announced ...

Andrew Ng is at it again. The cofounder of Coursera — a Silicon Valley startup that offers free college-level classes to millions of online visitors – is politely challenging another bedrock ...