Exporting Education

By Anya Kamenetz. Online courses are taking off in developing countries, but there’s a major downside.
Time zones away from the quads of Cambridge, Mass., and Palo Alto, Calif., there’s a curious educational evolution happening. Though the modern massive open online course movement (MOOCs) originated in North America, two-thirds of their users live abroad—in places like Rwanda, China, and Brazil. More...