EdX, the online-education initiative run by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is expanding its curriculum with 26 new classes aimed at high-school students who are hoping to ...

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CAMBRIDGE — A year after Harvard University and MIT launched edX, a not-for-profit initiative that offers online classes at no charge, the group announced Tuesday that it is doubling the number of ...

Google is teaming up with EdX, an open-source online education nonprofit started by Harvard and MIT, to create a new site that EdX’s president compared to a “YouTube for MOOCs.” The site is called ...

UC Berkeley announced Tuesday that it is joining the new online education website founded by Harvard and MIT that offers free, not-for-credit courses to a worldwide audience. The addition of UC ...

Fourteen million people are currently enrolled in an online program that teaches classes from universities like Harvard, MIT, and Cal-Berkley. Now, Doane is the first University in Nebraska to join ...

Through edX, the two storied institutions will offer courses online for free and develop an open-source software platform tailored for online learning. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Classes at liberal arts colleges bring to mind small groups of students bunched around a long wooden table, batting around big ideas with a professor. That tradition would seem at odds with the new ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA6ELdIRkRU&w=640&h=360] Distance learners rejoice! Harvard University and MIT jointly announced their new non-profit edX ...

The MOOC was The Next Big Thing---and then it was written off for dead. But for Anant Agarwal, one of the founding fathers of this online reboot of university education, it's only just getting started ...

Learning new skills online is often far more convenient and inexpensive than in-person enrollment. You get to take your time, pay a lower fee, and in some cases, you get to keep the information for ...

Sign up to get the best of Boston, every day. EdX president Anant Agarwal hopes the higher-ed program will one day reach a billion students. (Photo by Scott M. Lacey ...