The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is offering a free, undergraduate-level circuits and electronics course online, to virtual learners around the world. The Massachusetts Institute of ...

Several weeks into MIT's massive open online teaching experiment, faculty ponder how it could change the university. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended 2011 with a grand announcement: It ...

MIT's first MOOC, "6.002x Circuits and Electronics" According to Class Central, the course, which launched on March 5, 2012, drew 155,000 learners from around the world. Students were "blown away" by ...

One inspiring example of the power of online technology to break down global barriers to education is the story of Battushig Myanganbayar from Ulan Bator in Mongolia. In 2012, aged just 15, he took a ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology will begin enrollment today for the first course in its enhanced online platform, where students around the world can take classes and get a certificate upon ...

Just in case you were feeling at all accomplished or self-important today, the New York Times Magazine has published a story about a Mongolian MIT freshman to put your life in perspective. When he was ...