Five years after the initial pilot of MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative, it's now making its way into secondary education with the launch this week of "Highlights for High School," which aims to bolster ...

Online education offers the flexibility and accessibility of learning things according to an individual's pace, needs and financial standing. As more and more people gain access into the Internet on ...

Imagine you are taking a biology course. You're studying for an exam and would like to revisit the professor's explanation of RNA interference. Fortunately, a digital recording of the lecture is ...

Contrary to erroneous reports, MIT says it has no plans to implement a paywall for its free open courseware, ReadWriteWeb reports. “That is simply not under consideration,” says Steve Carson, MIT ...

All of Walter Lewin’s 8.01, 8.02, and 8.03 lectures are available on MIT OpenCourseWare: 8.01: Classical Mechanics (Fall 1999) 8.02: Electricity and Magnetism (Spring 2002) 8.03: Vibrations and Waves ...

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. Martin ...

After almost 10 years of giving teachers and learners around the world free online access to nearly all MIT’s undergraduate and graduate course materials through OpenCourseWare, MIT is upping the ante ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has indefinitely removed online lectures by retired physics professor Walter Lewin after a student accused him of sexual harassment. Lewin’s were removed ...

Learning the skill of coding is now made easier and even free. There are now a number of online educational sites that offer free coding courses which students from anywhere in the world can learn at ...

Lectures are often the least educational aspect of college; I know, I’ve taught college seniors and witnessed how little students learn during their four years in higher education. So, while it’s ...

Five years after the initial pilot of MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative, it's now making its way into secondary education with the launch this week of "Highlights for High School," which aims to bolster ...