MIT and Harvard announce edX
Joint partnership builds on MITx and Harvard distance learning; aims to benefit campus-based education and beyond.
What is edX?
Answering common questions about MIT and Harvard’s new partnership in online education.
Five from MIT named Fulbright scholars
Two current students and three recent graduates will study abroad for the 2012-13 academic year.
Game theory, in the real world
MIT economist Parag Pathak engineers practical solutions to complicated education problems.
MITx: What the students think
From Buenos Aires to Honolulu to Montreal, a virtual community grows up around the online initiative’s prototype course.
MIT OpenCourseWare publishes new resource for entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurship course list supported by a grant from the NASDAQ OMX Foundation.
MIT launches student-produced educational video initiative
Original short videos, in collaboration with Khan Academy, aim to fuel K-12 students’ interest in engineering and science.
Taking an innovative approach to battery design
Donald Sadoway’s radical rethinking of electricity storage could revitalize renewable-power technologies.
Disruptive innovation — in education
For Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to reinvent it.