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Keynote speaker Po-Shen Loh is a Carnegie Mellon University associate professor, founder of online education platform Expii, and coach of the U.S. International Math Olympiad Team.

Festival of Learning highlights innovation

Digital technologies, such as virtual reality, drive better outcomes for MIT students and global learners.

February 19, 2019

Lara Baladi, lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (left), and Noelle LaCharite of Microsoft

New collaboration sparks global connections to art through artificial intelligence

MIT designers, researchers, and students collaborate with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Microsoft to improve the connection between people and art.

February 5, 2019

William Oliver says government research funding will have to be augmented with commercialization of quantum computing, and that will require trained scientists and engineers.

Q&A: The talent shortage in quantum computing

William Oliver says a lack of available quantum scientists and engineers may be an inhibitor of the technology’s growth.

January 23, 2019

Professor and MIT Virtuality Director Fox Harrell is seeking to determine how MIT could use extended reality technologies, both on campus and beyond, to better serve human needs through artful innovation of virtual experiences.

MIT Open Learning launches Center for Advanced Virtuality

The new center will explore how MIT can use virtual reality and artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve human needs.

November 27, 2018

Joshua Angrist, co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative and the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, speaks at this year's MIT School Access and Quality Summit.

Exploring school choice

MIT School Access and Quality Summit brings policymakers, educators, and researchers together to examine strategies and ways to measure effectiveness.

November 20, 2018

Young learners at the Chinese International School build their own project with guidance from rising MIT junior Rana Odabas.

MIT STEAM Camp in Hong Kong blends mind and hand for middle school students

MIT's pK-12 Action Group collaborates with the Chinese International School to bring faculty, staff, and students together for hands-on learning.

October 3, 2018

To date, 19 pathway institutions in 11 countries offer 58 different pathways to a master’s degree.

MITx MicroMasters adds new pathways to master’s degrees

Learners from around the globe now have enhanced access to “blended” master’s programs at MIT and elsewhere.

October 1, 2018

Applications for second offering of the ReACT Computer and Data Science Program are now open.

New learning opportunities for displaced persons

Now accepting applications for new students, MIT ReACT Hub launched its first program in Jordan earlier this year with a certificate in computer and data science.

September 21, 2018

Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by MIT and Harvard. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.

Anant Agarwal, MIT professor and edX CEO, wins Yidan Prize

Agarwal is recognized for making education more accessible to people around the world, via edX open-source online platform.

September 18, 2018

Learners from around the world have completed the online course Introduction to Computer Science using Python through MITx on edX.

Most popular MITx MOOC reaches 1.2 million enrollments

Since its first online offering in 2012, Introduction to Computer Science using Python from MITx has become the most popular MOOC in MIT history.

August 30, 2018

The MITx MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy is an online series of courses designed for learners like Alan Al Yussef, who seek to have a direct impact on major social issues through an empirical, data-driven approach.

Turning an economics education into solutions with impact

MITx MicroMasters learner Alan Al Yussef is working to improve lives in the Middle East through a career in development economics.

August 14, 2018

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command views a shift to model-based systems engineering as an essential step in shortening and modernizing its abilities to deliver high-quality, state-of-the-art programs. Pictured here is Cmdr. Cynthia Dieterly, commanding officer of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 115 conducts pre-flight checks on an E-2C Hawkeye prior to launch from the Nimitz-class aircraft...

Transforming the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, with thanks to MIT

NAVAIR is upgrading its acquisition capabilities using an MIT online course in model-based systems engineering.

August 6, 2018

Members of J-WEL’s Higher Education Collaborative identified key themes at the March 2018 J-WEL Week.

Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab welcomes initial members

Membership in the first year includes leading companies, universities, and non-governmental organizations.

July 31, 2018

In the online five-course program, which led to an MIT MicroMasters certificate after completion of a rigorous online exam, 1,900 students completed all the classes, and 622 successfully completed the final exam. Forty-two of the students ended up starting the residential semester in January of this year.

First class excels in “hybrid” master’s program

Experimental degree combining online MicroMasters and residential learning sees great success.

July 13, 2018

MIT undergraduate Mark Vrablic (standing, left) engages as the teaching assistant and mentor for a student group building a video game in a nine-day workshop that he helped design and publish on MIT’s OpenCourseWare along with Department of Materials Science and Engineering lecturer Kyle Keane and Andrew Ringler from the Interactive Materials Education Laboratory.

Bringing humanistic education in technical subjects to the world

Students and staff combine workshopping and OpenCourseWare to demonstrate human-centered pedagogies in the context of modern topics and technologies.

June 28, 2018