Massive Open Online Classes Appeal More to the Affluent

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Free online educational courses may not be democratizing education as much as proponents believe, a new study reports. John D. Hansen, a doctoral student at Harvard University’s School of Education, and his colleagues looked at registration and completion patterns in 68 massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered by Harvard and M.I.T. More...