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 ...

Five years after the initial pilot of MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative, it's now making its way into secondary education with the launch today of "Highlights for High School," which aims to bolster ...

Training for a clerical military role in France, Gustavo Barboza felt a spark he couldn't ignore. He remembered his love of ...

MIT, a global leader in education, offers over 2,000 free online courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative. Highlighting ten of the best courses, including topics like computational thinking, ...

After launching their first iPhone app last February, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) has announced they’ll be debuting a new partnership this February. They’ve just partnered with textbook publisher Flat ...

The great landmarks of higher education in the United States -- the establishment of land-grant colleges in the mid- 19th-century and the GI Bill at the close of World War II -- spread knowledge and ...

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 ...

While MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project isn’t quite a free education, it is a new approach to the open sharing of knowledge over the Internet. Launched two weeks ago, anyone with an Internet ...