The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making its course materials, everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos, available to the world for free download.

Since 2017, he has been MIT’s Dean for Digital Learning, leading MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), a free publication of MIT courses and materials, open to the public around the globe.

Harvard and MIT together have committed $60 million to the project, which is likely more than the combined venture funds raised by Coursera, Udacity and Khan Academy. Like the open courses being ...

Students in a free online physics course from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrated roughly equal learning gains if they stuck with the class, regardless of previous academic ...

MIT to offer free online courses in game design, ed techThe place where the video game was invented more than 50 years ago now wants to teach teachers, entrepreneurs and students how to design ...

Teenage applicants from as far afield as India and Mongolia are catching western colleges’ attention by taking so-called “massive online open courses” designed for older students.