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

The great landmarks of higher education in the United States -- the establishment of land-grant colleges in the mid- 19th-century and the GI Bill at the close of World War II -- spread knowledge ...

Harvard and MIT hope their free online courses will not only give learners access to top courses, but also give education researchers access to unprecedented pools of learning data.

Budding fintech entrepreneurs can now embellish their academic credentials by enrolling on a financial technology applications course at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.