Higher-ed leaders meet to discuss future of online education
Innovative pedagogical techniques and the effects of online-learning tools on on-campus education subjects of conversation at MIT- and Harvard-led summit.
Undergraduate tuition and fees to rise 3.4 percent next year
Increase to be offset by financial aid expenditures, which will grow to a record $97.6 million.
MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegates
The Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.
Six new institutions join edX
Consortium doubles its institutional membership with the addition of universities in Australia, Europe, Canada and the United States.
What’s the cost and financial value of college?
At MIT, experts say evidence shows the payoff from college education remains high.
Institute-Wide Task Force aims to sketch the MIT education of the future
Saying ‘we are in the midst of an educational revolution,’ President L. Rafael Reif asks Professor Sanjay Sarma and EVP and Treasurer Israel Ruiz to lead an effort to envision the MIT of 2020 and beyond.
IS&T addresses concerns about MIT’s network
Information Services & Technology sheds light on recent service interruptions, as well as steps taken to mitigate risks to the MIT network.
Office of Digital Learning to host open house
Event to share opportunities and services from MITx, OEIT and OCW.
Duflo, Lander, Lewin to lead spring-semester MITx courses
EdX takes stock of last semester’s MITx courses; data will be used to improve education online and in the classroom.
A physicist and her neutrinos
MIT senior Christie Chiu has found her focus: the study of tiny particles.
MIT educational video program heads to Malaysia
BLOSSOMS Initiative kicks off at the country’s University of Technology.
Students develop assistive technologies
Undergraduate teams create helpful phone apps and devices for people with disabilities.
Skoltech, MIT reflect on first year of collaboration
Anniversary event celebrates international ties.
American Philosophical Association honors Judith Jarvis Thomson
Bestows Quinn Prize for lifelong contributions to philosophy