In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. On April 4th, 2001, the Massachusetts Institute of ...

On <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFvqOSRsa8">April 4, 2001</a>, former MIT President Charles Vest made a historic announcement: the Institute would provide ...

Krishna Rajagopal is a professor of theoretical physics at MIT who studies the very first moments of the newborn Universe. Since 2017, he has been MIT’s Dean for Digital Learning, leading MIT ...

The MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative now lists more than 900 courses on its Web site. One of MIT’s most venerable, “Course 16.01: Unified Engineering,” showcases the active learning and integrated ...

A decade after MIT began to put its teaching materials and lectures online via the OpenCourseWare platform, the university has announced that it will leverage these materials to provide an online ...

When MIT made a formal decision in the year 2000 to publish their course materials on the Internet, MIT alumni could have been miffed. Here was the institution's renowned curriculum—previously ...

Online education offers the flexibility and accessibility of learning things according to an individual's pace, needs and financial standing. As more and more people gain access into the Internet on ...

MIT, a global leader in education, offers over 2,000 free online courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative. Highlighting ten of the best courses, including topics like computational thinking, ...

The Mellon Foundation and Hewlett Foundation will provide 11 million dollars in grants to support the new online OpenCourseWare (OCW) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the ...