As the Massachusetts Institute of Technology joins Stanford University in a plan to offer free online courses -- ones for which students can even earn certificates -- a law maker in the state of ...

At 83, Marian C. Diamond has been teaching anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley, for 50 years. Her class is so popular that it’s difficult for students to get in, though she holds court ...

Open courseware has been a transformative boon for do-it-yourself learners and institutions — particularly foreign universities — that lack the resources to develop top-flight courses and course ...

Nine in 10 MIT undergraduates say they use open courseware. Just as colleges and universities have adopted online classes over the past decade, students can expect free open courseware of some kind at ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. I have just enrolled in a university course called Introduction to Sociology taught out of Princeton ...

As its name suggests, a MOOC, or Massive Open Online Course, is a university course that is provided on the internet free-of-charge to anyone who cares to enrol in it. In all of the media hype ...

The internet is used to learn about almost anything if you can find it. Much of the Massive Open Online Content (MOOC) even comes from well known universities. Here we link to useful articles and ...

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