Teenage applicants from as far afield as India and Mongolia are catching western colleges’ attention by taking so-called “massive online open courses” designed for older students.

We're always looking for the best online courses that you can take for free, but it's hard to beat MIT. As of March 24, a wide range of online courses from MIT are available for free on edX.

Learning doesn't have to formal, or expensive. Here are 4 courses from MIT that are free of charge and available to all.

The software system will build off OpenCourseWare, a program MIT started 10 years ago that lets people view lectures and course material online.

For millions of students worldwide, free, open courseware provides a window, if not a front-row seat, to top university classes. The formats are as varied as the people who tune in. Some consist ...

I, for one, welcome our new MITx online overlords. What is MITx? Here are all the details from MIT. Let me just point out some key aspects. It isn't quite clear yet, but the announcements does say ...

Top institutions like Harvard, Google, MIT, and IIT Bombay are offering free beginner coding courses in 2025. Covering Python, Java, R, C, and even Scratch for school educators, these courses help ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making its course materials, everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos, available to the world for free download.

Harvard and MIT together have committed $60 million to the project, which is likely more than the combined venture funds raised by Coursera, Udacity and Khan Academy. Like the open courses being ...

Lewin, 78, taught at MIT for more than three decades and his popular physics lectures drew wide acclaim. He retired in July 2009 and last taught an online course in 2013.