Critiques about MOOCs, centered around low completion rates, may be fair and valid. But these concerns are framed in the traditional benchmarks for what makes a college course successful. In June 2013 ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ReadSpeaker, the most trusted, independent digital voice partner for educational institutions and learning platforms around the world, today announced that it is now ...

The MOOC provider founded by Harvard and MIT, EdX, announced that its open source platform, Open edX, is now available through Amazon Web Services Marketplace. EdX is a nonprofit, open-source learning ...

After famously releasing its source code under a broad open source license, MIT and Harvard’s edX MOOC platform is backtracking a bit—reclassifying part of its code to a less restrictive license that ...

EdX, the online course provider created by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, sees an open-source future for massive online courses. On Tuesday, the company announced ...

Google is teaming up with EdX, an open-source online education nonprofit started by Harvard and MIT, to create a new site that EdX’s president compared to a “YouTube for MOOCs.” The site is called ...

Months after Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stunned the education-technology world by announcing they would sell the nonprofit online platform they created to a ...

These days, there are two polar-opposite modes of higher education. You can either attend a public or private university on-site for about $15,000 to $60,000 a year, or you can partake in online ...

As new models of digital learning sweep across higher education, colleges and universities across the globe are scrambling to get on board and make their course catalogs available to a wider audience ...

10gen, the company behind the MongoDB open-source "NoSQL" database, has teamed with EdX—the free online education collaboration between MIT, Harvard, and the University of California Berkeley—to bring ...