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MIT OpenCourseWare offers materials from over 2,500 courses on its website and YouTube channel for anyone to access and learn from. Hear how OpenCourseWare transforms the lives and careers of learners across the globe with free educational resources.
MIT is launching a new program for earning an MIT master’s degree by completing an online Supply Chain Management course and then spending one semester on campus. MIT also announced a new academic credential: the “MicroMaster’s,” earned through MITx by students who pass an exam upon successful completion of the same semester’s worth of relevant courses online.
The two universities announce a major transition for edX, the online platform for university courses, which will be acquired by 2U and reorganized as a public benefit company. The nonprofit led by MIT and Harvard will explore how to apply artificial intelligence to enable personalized learning that responds to individual needs.
MIT researchers found that students who spent significant time doing coursework in massive open online courses (MOOCs) showed evidence of learning regardless of educational background, writes Steve Kolowich for The Chronicle of Higher Education. “This certainly should allay concerns that less-well-prepared students cannot learn in MOOCs ...
How free online courses from MIT can “transform the future of the world” MIT OpenCourseWare’s YouTube channel inspires millions of learners across the globe to expand their knowledge and develop new skills for free. March 12, 2024. Read full story →
Offering interactive MIT courses online to learners around the world builds upon MIT’s OpenCourseWare, a free online publication of nearly all of MIT’s undergraduate and graduate course materials. Now in its 10th year, OpenCourseWare includes nearly 2,100 MIT courses and has been used by more than 100 million people.
Learn how Charalampos Sampalis, a product manager in Greece, used MIT Open Learning resources to grow his career and skills. He completed MITx courses and an MIT Bootcamp, and joined a global community of innovators and changemakers.
Participation in HarvardX and MITx open online courses has grown steadily, while participation in repeated courses has declined and then stabilized. From July 24, 2012, through Sept. 21, 2014, an average of 1,300 new participants joined a HarvardX or MITx course each day, for a total of 1 million unique participants and 1.7 million total ...
MIT and Harvard University today announced the release of a series of working papers based on 17 online courses offered on the edX platform. Run in 2012 and 2013, the courses analyzed drew upon diverse topics — from ancient Greek poetry to electromagnetism — and an array of disciplines, from public health to engineering to law.
MIT found that retired physics faculty member Walter Lewin violated its policy on sexual harassment in his interactions with online learners. The Institute indefinitely removed his lectures from OpenCourseWare and MITx, where he taught until 2013.