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 ...

George Mason University has always prided itself on thinking different. An article once analogized the school’s economics department and law school to sports franchises run according to Moneyball ...

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 ...

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, a star economics professor at George Mason University, isn’t interested in making money off the online university he co-founded last fall. “We would like to see much more of that,” Cowen ...