The Saylor Foundation has been building an online catalog of free, self-paced college courses since 2010. But students who completed… More »
The Saylor Foundation has been building an online catalog of free, self-paced college courses since 2010. But students who completed… More »
The group of elite universities offering free online courses just got bigger. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology… More »
What’s it like taking a course with 120,000 other students? That is one of the questions raised this spring by… More »
eLearning Papers is an initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture. Its aim is to promote the… More »
For Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to… More »
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended 2011 with a grand announcement: It would broadcast massive, open online courses — equal… More »
As educators push for more and better access to open educational resources (OER), or content that is available free of… More »
Washington – Open-education efforts like the free lecture materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and producing free online textbooks… More »
For students looking to learn skills and land jobs, might the good word of a highly regarded instructor count as… More »
The faculty union at the University of Manitoba, in Canada, sent an e-mail message to its members this month alerting… More »