5 Reasons International Students Should Consider MOOCs

By Devon Haynie. International students can use MOOCs to test whether they are ready to study in the U.S. At 15, it seems unlikely Priya Prabhakar would know much about college.
But the rising high school sophomore has already taken six college courses from some of America's best universities, earning high marks in everything from poetry to computer programming.
Prabhakar, from Chennai, India, is one of thousands of students across the globe taking massive open online courses. And she can't get enough of them. Read more...