The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making its course materials, everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos, available to the world for free download.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology launches an ambitious program to put materials for all of its 2,000 courses online, for free.

The great landmarks of higher education in the United States -- the establishment of land-grant colleges in the mid- 19th-century and the GI Bill at the close of World War II -- spread knowledge ...

Students in a free online physics course from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrated roughly equal learning gains if they stuck with the class, regardless of previous academic ...