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 ...

Celebrating its sixth anniversary, the OpenCourseWare Project's goal is to put MIT's course materials online, for free. The coursework is provided under a Creative Commons license which limits usage ...

It sounds like a Utopian vision - a high-quality, free education for everyone - but that's precisely what MIT and other prestigious universities are doing by participating in the The OpenCourseWare ...

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 ...

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, ...

We'll forgive you if you failed to take MIT up on its offer take its courses for free when it rolled out its MITx online learning platform last year. However, Harvard took notice of its efforts, and ...

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.

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 ...

NUMBER MUNCHER: Stephen Carson, External Relations Director for MIT OpenCourseWare, shares a first peek at some numbers of who's using the material according to an ongoing survey: He reports over 127 ...