News The Gates Foundation today announced $9 million in grants to support innovative delivery models in higher education. Among the awards is the foundation’s first contribution to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Specifically, the foundation is giving $1 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for its MITx project. The grant... 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

News Educational organizations across the Web are adopting badges to certify abilities and skills that employers might look for, like mentorship or digital video editing. This is not limited to online-only educational institutions, such as the Khan Academy. On the traditional side, for example, MIT is creating MITx, a self-service learning... more

News Millions of learners have enjoyed the free lecture videos and other course materials published online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare project. Now MIT plans to release a fresh batch of open online courses–and, for the first time, to offer certificates to outside students who complete them. The credentials... more