More universities are herding into massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Just this week, the University of Texas, announced it would, joining the likes of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute ...

As a free, quick-and-dirty introduction, it’s about as good as I could realistically imagine. The one issue I’ve noticed so far is that the practice questions at the end of every course section are ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, the George Mason University economics professors behind the popular economics blog MarginalRevolution.com, ...

This is the third episode of our new podcast series on the future of higher education. You can subscribe in iTunes to get prior and future episodes. Many people know Tyler Cowen for his economics blog ...

Tyler Cowen, star economics professor, co-founded online university about a decade after he helped start the popular blog Marginal Revolution. He wants to offer a whole basic economics education ...