In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

When Freesia Gaul discovered MIT Open Learning's OpenCourseWare at just 14 years old, it opened up a world of learning far ...

Still, MIT has frequently had to correct the public perception that, with OpenCourseWare, it would offer free online courses from MIT professors for credit. “Because it was such a new idea, it was ...

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

TL;DR: Find a wide range of free online courses from MIT on edX. You can find an enormous bank of free online courses from top educational institutions on edX. And we really do mean the best schools ...

Krishna Rajagopal is a professor of theoretical physics at MIT who studies the very first moments of the newborn Universe. Since 2017, he has been MIT’s Dean for Digital Learning, leading MIT ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has decided to publish online all its course materials--a $107,840 value. The MIT OpenCourseWare project launched two weeks ago with a preliminary pilot that ...

While MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project isn’t quite a free education, it is a new approach to the open sharing of knowledge over the Internet. Launched two weeks ago, anyone with an Internet ...