On <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFvqOSRsa8">April 4, 2001</a>, former MIT President Charles Vest made a historic announcement: the Institute would provide ...

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 ...

Krishna Rajagopal is a professor of theoretical physics at MIT who studies the very first moments of the newborn Universe. Since 2017, he has been MIT’s Dean for Digital Learning, leading MIT ...

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, ...

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

After launching their first iPhone app last February, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) has announced they’ll be debuting a new partnership this February. They’ve just partnered with textbook publisher Flat ...

Would you go to class - or pay tuition upwards of of $30,000 a year - if all college course materials were available online at no cost? MIT announced a plan last Wednesday to provide the general ...

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 ...

The announcement yesterday from Harvard and MIT to jointly form EdX provides rapid acceleration to the arms race among elite universities to build Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to try to teach ...