The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making its course materials, everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos, available to the world for free download.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology launches an ambitious program to put materials for all of its 2,000 courses online, for free.

Markos Hankin/MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology started giving away the content of its courses over the Web 10 years ago. Now it plans to give away its online learning software, too.

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 great landmarks of higher education in the United States -- the establishment of land-grant colleges in the mid- 19th-century and the GI Bill at the close of World War II -- spread knowledge ...

Harvard and MIT hope their free online courses will not only give learners access to top courses, but also give education researchers access to unprecedented pools of learning data.

MIT researcher and admissions officer Chris Peterson is offering “Credit for Reddit,’’ after one student claimed “I already Reddit instead of homework, so I might as well Reddit for ...

Open course in digital storytelling, a holdover from before open learning was associated with massive tools wielded by celebrity professors, remains content with its modest but devoted following.

Google launched an open source course building web application for the growing list of K-12 and big-name universities developing online classes. The barebones website is a lightweight way to bring ...