There are a lot more women in MOOCs than once thought

By Denny Carter. The higher education kerfuffle caused by 2013 surveys showing yawning gender gaps in massive open online courses (MOOCs) may have been premature. An online visualization tool breaking down reams of MOOC data from the edX partnership between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) painted a much more equitable gender split in students taking the experimental courses around the world. More...