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2012 is shaping up as the year of the mega-class. Wondering what all the fuss is about? Here's a guide to our coverage of massive open online courses.

Massive open online courses are the educational happening of the moment. Everyone wants in. No one is quite sure what they’re getting into.

We're used to how the social web has disrupted media, but that same wave is moving through other industries, driven by startups like Airbnb, Coursera and Uber - and while regulators and entrenched industries are trying to fight it, the trend behind that wave is unstoppable.

I was struck by the idea of Coursera serving as a vector for pedagogical innovation between disciplines and universities.

Coursera et Udacity monopolisent l'attention dans le monde de l'éducation. À Paris, outre Unishared, deux autres startups françaises tentent de se développer dans ce domaine avec des visions alternatives. Portraits croisés.

There is an eminent revolution about to happen in the online education sector. Unishared focus on collaboration and peer learning. It pushes students to share everything they learn in classrooms all the time. Can Unishared be THE game-changer?

Coursera and MITx seem potentially to represent very different approaches to the expansion of online learning, and those differences may be very important in determining the ultimate impact on higher education of online learning.

Professeur brillante déçue par l'enseignement classique, Daphne Koller a inventé la "flip education" qui s'appuie sur les vidéos des cours. Un succès.

As top-ranked universities join the MOOC revolution, backed by big-name investors, Mike Boxall asks what we can learn from the first dot.com history and who the eventual winners will be.

Coursera, Udacity, edX: Will free online Ivy League courses end the era of expensive higher ed?