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 ...

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.

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, ...

You better have a plan and real objectives from day one.” Big Vision, Few Specifics When Harvard and MIT sold edX to 2U, Open edX, the open-source platform that had powered edX, was not part of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manasi Vartak, founder and CEO of Verta, conceived of the idea of the open-source project ModelDB database as a way to track versions of machine models while she was still in grad school at MIT ...

A new way of learning In contrast to traditional higher education, which closes learning off from the world, open learning is transparent and accessible to anyone with internet access.