The storied tech institution launches MITx, an initiative to create an open-source online-learning software platform that can be used by other schools and complement its OpenCourseWare content.

MIT has developed the infrastructure to bring the knowledge being created in this College to every global learner with a smartphone. The level of investment from this College in open online learning ...

And since MIT and Harvard teamed up in 2012 to launch edX, a free open-source platform for online learning, MIT has been offering a growing number of classes online.Now MIT’s expansive Open ...

The MIT Open Learning program is meant to offer education opportunities for lifelong learners around the world. The courses include lecture videos, notes, study materials, and more.

If so, you’re in luck. In addition to the hundreds if not thousands of great classes already out there, MIT Open Learning just announced it’s releasing 11 new free, online courses.

Learning Machine is behind an initiative called BlockCerts, an open source and open standard securing credentials on the blockchain. Institutions like MIT can cryptographically sign a credential ...

Students in a free online physics course from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrated roughly equal learning gains if they stuck with the class, regardless of previous academic ...

“The MITx MicroMasters credential program opens up a semesters-worth of graduate-level courses from MIT to anyone willing to learn,” Krishna Rajagopal, dean for digital learning at MIT Open ...

MIT's Connected Learning Initiative has won the King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education from the United Nations Educational, ...