News Over the past 20 years, I have studied and worked with educators who have aspired to be change leaders in a wide variety of schools in the U.S. and elsewhere. The most effective of these change leaders – whether they are classroom teachers, principals, or systems leaders – share a... more

News Nonprofit online learning initiative edX has opened registration for its spring classes, adding several courses in the humanities and social sciences for the first time. Launched by Harvard and MIT last May, spring will be the second semester for the online platform and will include courses from UC Berkeley, which joined the... more

Event MIT’s Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) 2013 conference focuses on the theme Realizing the Dream: Education Becoming Available to All. The event features a world-class slate of e-learning thought leaders, including: Sir John Daniel, former President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning Dr. Anant Agarwal, President of the MIT and... more

News Wellesley, a prestigious women’s college located in Massachusetts (U.S.), has joined edX, a nonprofit venture offering free online higher education in the form of massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Wellesley, along with University of Texas, which joined edX in October, brings the count of participating institutions to five, including... more

News Google has taken what its officials call an “experimental first step” into online education, releasing open-source software called Course Builder with the hope that universities will use it to deliver free online courses. Google says it is in talks with edX—a partnership among Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California... more

News The University of California at Berkeley is joining edX, which was formed recently by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to offer massively open online courses (MOOCs). The Berkeley announcement comes just a week after Coursera, another provider of MOOCs by elite universities, announced a major expansion. In... more

News Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have partnered to launch edX, an initiative to offer free online courses worldwide and develop an open source platform to deliver them. The platform developed for MITx, an initiative launched early this year to offer free MIT courses online, will serve as... more

Resource EdX is a joint partnership between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free. Through this partnership, the institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a... more