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 ...

It sounds like a Utopian vision - a high-quality, free education for everyone - but that's precisely what MIT and other prestigious universities are doing by participating in the The OpenCourseWare ...

“What has the impact been of MOOCs on MIT OCW usage?” Matthew Rascoff (@mzrascoff) tweeted earlier this week. It’s a great question. Have massive open online classes spurred more interest in MIT Open ...

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 ...

When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced an ambitious plan to give away online materials for every course, officials wondered whether other colleges and universities would follow suit.

The OpenCourseWare Finder organizes and lists open (read:free) university courses with materials that you can access online. Currently the OpenCourseWare Finder is listing results from five ...

Phillip Long is a Professor Innovation and Educational Technology, founding Director of the Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology at the University of Queensland, and a Visiting Researcher ...