In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

Celebrating its sixth anniversary, the OpenCourseWare Project's goal is to put MIT's course materials online, for free. The coursework is provided under a Creative Commons license which limits usage ...

Krishna Rajagopal is a professor of theoretical physics at MIT who studies the very first moments of the newborn Universe. Since 2017, he has been MIT’s Dean for Digital Learning, leading MIT ...

The MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative now lists more than 900 courses on its Web site. One of MIT’s most venerable, “Course 16.01: Unified Engineering,” showcases the active learning and integrated ...

A decade after MIT began to put its teaching materials and lectures online via the OpenCourseWare platform, the university has announced that it will leverage these materials to provide an online ...

It sounds like a Utopian vision - a high-quality, free education for everyone - but that's precisely what MIT and other prestigious universities are doing by participating in the The OpenCourseWare ...

Nine in 10 MIT undergraduates say they use open courseware. Just as colleges and universities have adopted online classes over the past decade, students can expect free open courseware of some kind at ...

When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced an ambitious plan to give away online materials for every course, officials wondered whether other colleges and universities would follow suit.

Open courseware that incorporates video lectures costs the most to make available on the web. Open courseware isn’t the end of higher education, as some have feared, but rather a recruiting tool that ...