MITx, the brainchild of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was announced last December. Now the platform, which offers MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that registration has opened for its first online course through MITx, its new online spin-off devoted to offering “interactive” online versions ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover education as a sector and as the bedrock of all sectors. Each school has committed $30 million to support edX. A yet ...

Registration is now open for the first MITx class, an interactive online version of an introductory electrical engineering course. The class will be free, although receiving a certificate of ...

A story on NPR Morning Edition yesterday about What Vietnam Taught Us About Breaking Bad Habits raised an interesting thought in relation to the MITx initiative. Instead of the normal 90% relapse rate ...

MITX rolled out the red carpet last night for the hottest companies in digital marketing and technology innovation, recognizing their achievements over the past year at its annual awards ceremony.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended 2011 with a grand announcement: It would broadcast massive, open online courses — equal in rigor to its on-campus offerings — to tens of thousands of ...

MITx, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's massive open online course (MOOC) program, will begin offering certificates for completing sequences of related modules through the edX platform.

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! More exciting than MIT’s announcement that it’s taking admissions to the iPad is the ...