(AP) – Esther Duflo, one of the two superstar MIT economists teaching my Massive Open Online Course on global poverty, is a fast-talking French woman with whom I could barely keep up _ especially when ...

Just as it’s hard imagine what life was like before the internet, after 2012’s breakout year for Coursera, Edx and Udacity among others, it’s hard to speak about higher education without mention of ...

Many graduate-school admissions counselors aren’t sure if they are ready for massive open online courses, attendees at an annual conference here said, or for the ways those courses could change both ...