Imagine the following scenario: During his sophomore year, a high school student failed world history, a course required for graduation. Thankfully, he’s still in school. But without those world ...

Students may soon be able to receive college credit for the free online courses that are reshaping higher education. The American Council on Education announced Thursday that it is recommending degree ...

The One Credit Academy offers one credit online course options for students. Designed to assist students with studying online, maintaining full-time status, staying on track for graduation or ...

SAN JOSE — San Jose State University, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, is also at the heart of a big American education experiment: low-cost online classes offered for credit. If it works, high ...

College presidents to study notion of giving credit for MOOCs courses Antioch University in Los Angeles already offers credit for MOOCs Approval could lead to lower tuition costs for students The ...

As military-affiliated learners consider their options and how they want to use or preserve their educational benefits, they ...

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 ...

Former teacher Lindalyn Kakadelis worries that nothing has demeaned the value of a high school diploma more than online credit recovery courses. For years, she’s complained that the classes, used ...

Enrollment in concurrent credit classes offered through Northwest Arkansas Community College continues to grow this semester ...

Last year, the buzz around the potential of online courses (particularly MOOC platforms) reached new heights, and this year is already shaping up to be the one in which online course platforms and the ...

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 ...