Helping students stick with MOOCs
New techniques could help identify students at risk for dropping out of online courses.
MIT creates new Online Education Policy Initiative
Project brings together leaders in learning sciences, social sciences, and cognitive sciences to collaborate on a vision for the future of online learning.
Learning by teaching in a different culture
MISTI Global Teaching Labs has reached over 10,000 foreign high-school students with summer internships and research opportunities.
Study on MOOCs provides new insights on an evolving space
Findings suggest many teachers enroll, learner intentions matter, and cost boosts completion rates.
Making more than pretty pictures
Felice Frankel uses strong visual vocabulary to eliminate ambiguity and sell ideas.
A week at MIT
Workshop on quantitative methods in biology draws diverse undergrads from across the country.
$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development
Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab to include focus on China.
A revolution in higher education
Sanjay Sarma is leading an educational revolution now underway in higher education.
A MOOC sees its greatest impact in the classroom at MIT
Flipping a classroom enhances student and faculty experience.
Study: Online classes really do work
Detailed quantitative study of learning online shows success, even among those with least preparation.
MIT Professional Education announces new offerings of Online X professional course on big data
In response to success of initial offering, individuals may sign up now for fall and spring sessions of "Tackling the Challenges of Big Data"
Division of Student Life launching online education initiative
Alumni support to fund innovative experiential learning curriculum.
50 startups, five days, one bootcamp to change the world
MIT hosts a unique experiment in blended learning.