Getting in the MOOC

By Gregory Karp. Massive open online classes offer enrichment during down time, and the ROI is better than TV. Free entertainment online is nothing new, but what if you could access a form of entertainment and enrichment over the Internet that others pay thousands of dollars for and that keeps you occupied for weeks at a time?
That's one of the allures of MOOCs — massive open online classes. They're college classes taught online, some by the world's leading experts in their fields at famous universities. More...