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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Princeton University continues to broaden its online teaching and learning efforts and has become a charter member of the edX Consortium. As a result, millions of learners will have the opportunity to ...

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 ...

Students using Harvard and MIT’s edX courses take significantly less time to complete the online programs than students enrolled in the equivalent on-campus classes do, a wide-ranging report on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Ever since our September profile of edX, the online education program created by MIT and ...

[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 ...