Celebrating its sixth anniversary, the OpenCourseWare Project's goal is to put MIT's course materials online, for free. The coursework is provided under a Creative Commons license which limits usage ...

Five years after the initial pilot of MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative, it's now making its way into secondary education with the launch today of "Highlights for High School," which aims to bolster ...

Long one of the country's leaders in online learning, MIT just raised the ante, offering free classes and a certificate program. Today, MIT News announced MITx, a set of specially designed, free ...

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 ...

Contrary to erroneous reports, MIT says it has no plans to implement a paywall for its free open courseware, ReadWriteWeb reports. “That is simply not under consideration,” says Steve Carson, MIT ...

While it is becoming increasingly common (and easy) for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture last ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Imagine you are taking an introductory biology course. You're studying for an exam and realize it would be helpful to revisit the professor's explanation of RNA interference.

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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