TL;DR: A wide range of online courses from MIT are available to take for free on edX. A massive bank of free online courses can be found on edX. And these free courses come from some of the biggest ...

The pilot program allows students to count a semester's worth of free online classes toward a degree.

MIT took a major step toward increasing public access to its resources online six years ago, with the creation of OpenCourseWare, an effort to place all the university’s course materials on the ...

MIT's OpenCourseWare has been among the most popular, making course materials such as syllabi, tests and lecture videos from over 2,000 MIT classes available free online.

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.