As a free, quick-and-dirty introduction, it’s about as good as I could realistically imagine. The one issue I’ve noticed so far is that the practice questions at the end of every course section are ...

This is the third episode of our new podcast series on the future of higher education. You can subscribe in iTunes to get prior and future episodes. Many people know Tyler Cowen for his economics blog ...

More universities are herding into massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Just this week, the University of Texas, announced it would, joining the likes of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute ...

"The cost of education is going up. And we think that the online tools are going to allow people, including us, to do it—not just at a lower monetary cost – but at a lower time cost as well," says ...