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 ...

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 ...

MIT, a global leader in education, offers over 2,000 free online courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative. Highlighting ten of the best courses, including topics like computational thinking, ...

A decade after MIT began to put its teaching materials and lectures online via the OpenCourseWare platform, the university has announced that it will leverage these materials to provide an online ...

“What has the impact been of MOOCs on MIT OCW usage?” Matthew Rascoff (@mzrascoff) tweeted earlier this week. It’s a great question. Have massive open online classes spurred more interest in MIT Open ...

When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced an ambitious plan to give away online materials for every course, officials wondered whether other colleges and universities would follow suit.

A stunned but happy world rejoiced two years ago when MIT announced that they were moving to make their course materials available online for the world to freely access. I know I was pumped, and I ...

For about $27,000 a year, elite students can earn a degree at MIT, one of the most prestigious schools in the nation. And now the rest of the world can access MIT's curriculum on the Web for free, no ...