In an article in Science entitled "The MOOC Pivot" (subscription required for full article), Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Justin Reich and José A. Ruipérez-Valiente strive to explain why ...

A Harvard-MIT MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) collaboration since 2012, edX has along the way also amalgamated Stanford and UC Berkeley’s homegrown MOOC options, all now rolled into a not-for ...

In 2013, MIT began offering online programs for working professionals to meet learners across the globe. Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s catalog of publicly available massive open online courses is typically marketed toward the non-MIT public. Last fall, however, the university experimented ...

Teachers make up about one-third of participants in the massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by MIT and Harvard University, according to a new report by researchers at the two institutions.

MIT, the same institution that produced one of this year's Nobel prize winners in economics, has introduced a new blended "micromasters" program that can help people earn their master's degree in data ...

For students considering a credential – or even an affordable online degree – from a respectable university, a MOOC-based option might be the way to go. After piloting the concept at MIT this ...

When they examined enrollment in the Harvard and MIT MOOCs, Hansen and Reich also found that students’ socioeconomic backgrounds helped predict their course performance.

NEW TOOLS, SAME PROBLEMS: Do MOOCs really provide the eponymous openness they promise? In a study titled “ Democratizing Education? Examining Access and Usage Patterns in Massive Open Online Courses," ...