"Massive open online courses" — or MOOCs — are very popular and accessible forms of e-learning seen on platforms like edX and ...

When MIT and Harvard University started edX nearly a decade ago, it was touted as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online course providers. Today, the universities announced that they are selling ...

Five years and 11 million students on, Anant Agarwal, chief executive of the nonprofit organization, says there is still plenty of innovation to come from the venture and its university partners: ...

Arizona State University, in partnership with edX, this fall will begin to offer credit-bearing massive open online courses at a fraction of the cost of either in-person or traditional online ...

Anant Agarwal, CEO of the nonprofit MOOC platform provider edX, had some harsh words for traditional education, saying it's "pathetic" that classrooms today still look like the did decades ago. And, ...

If massive open online courses are goldmines of data, surely, edX must be the mother lode. MIT and Harvard University have just published a 37-page draft report that summarizes a multitude of findings ...

EdX, the online course provider created by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, sees an open-source future for massive online courses. On Tuesday, the company announced ...

MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Anant Agarwal has personified the educator-entrepreneur, as he has had a foot in academe and a foot in new ventures for more than a decade. He ...

Google will collaborate with edX on MOOC.org, new destination and hosting site for online learning CAMBRIDGE, MA – Sept. 10, 2013 – EdX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative, today announced ...

Courses will help prepare students for postsecondary success, edX reps said High school students now have access to massive open online courses (MOOCs) through a new effort from MOOC platform edX, ...

The Linux Foundation will offer a Linux development course on edX, the massive open online course (MOOC) platform developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. The ...

READ BETWEEN THE (DATA) LINES: Today appears to be a day of announcements for MOOC providers--first Coursera, now edX. Today, MIT and Harvard announced their release of a series of working papers on ...