A decade after MIT began to put its teaching materials and lectures online via the OpenCourseWare platform, the university has announced that it will leverage these materials to provide an online ...

MIT, a global leader in education, offers over 2,000 free online courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative. Highlighting ten of the best courses, including topics like computational thinking, ...

The storied tech institution launches MITx, an initiative to create an open-source online-learning software platform that can be used by other schools and complement its OpenCourseWare content. Martin ...

When Freesia Gaul discovered MIT Open Learning's OpenCourseWare at just 14 years old, it opened up a world of learning far ...

Online education offers the flexibility and accessibility of learning things according to an individual's pace, needs and financial standing. As more and more people gain access into the Internet on ...

Many of the students in Rebekka L. Stone’s biology classes hope to become the first in their families to graduate from high school. Some are struggling to master basic English, much less the more ...

The Mellon Foundation and Hewlett Foundation will provide 11 million dollars in grants to support the new online OpenCourseWare (OCW) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the ...

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology met midway between their campuses Wednesday in a hotel on the Charles River to announce a monumental partnership. Harvard President ...

Steven T. Ziegler leapt to MIT off a mountain. He was on a hang glider, and he slammed the ground hard on his chin. Recovery from surgery on his broken back left the 39-year-old high-school dropout ...