An online education organization backed and funded by MIT and Harvard University will use open-source technology to offer free classes over the Internet, the two schools announced Wednesday at a press ...

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 ...

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I, for one, welcome our new MITx online overlords. What is MITx? Here are all the details from MIT. Let me just point out some key aspects. It isn't quite clear yet, but the announcements does say ...

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 ...

The success of e-education depends on whether universities can design online environments that are conducive to learning. Well, as Megan McArdle has reported here recently, at least one university, ...

I’ve had a few days to think about the MIT Online Education report. While I’m (respectfully) critical of some of the content, I do feel that this is a potentially important document in our emerging ...

Administrators at Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they are “floored” by the quality of students in its half online, half in-person master's degree program. Expansion plans are in the works.

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