Two providers of massive open online courses are expanding their course catalogs to try to find a larger global audience. Coursera and edX both announced this week they are doubling the number of ...

How can a nonprofit organization that gives away courses bring in enough revenue to at least cover its costs? That’s the dilemma facing edX, a project led by Harvard University and the Massachusetts ...

The online-learning collaborative edX, a partnership between Harvard University and MIT, is expanding its reach beyond higher education and will begin offering courses geared toward high school ...

The University will partner with online open course provider edX beginning this fall to launch courses in response to the changing needs of students and faculty, Jeffrey HimpeleGS ’96, Director of ...

In a press conference afterward, system leaders said that they had committed to contributing one course by summer 2013 and four by fall 2013. Gene Powell, chairman of the board of regents, said that ...

Amherst College, known for its selectivity, is accustomed to sending rejection notices. But when the liberal-arts beacon this month turned down an invitation to join the exclusive partnership of ...

A course on Mao Zedong’s thought published by Beijing’s Tsinghua University on the virtual education platform edX, co-founded by Harvard and MIT in May 2012, has prompted faculty discussions on edX ...

Georgetown University is joining one of the most prominent ventures in online higher education, a Web platform known as edX that provides courses from elite schools to a global audience free of charge ...

At the Socializing Credential Innovation panel at SXSWedu on March 10, Jake Schwartz of General Assembly raised an important question. What is more valuable in the credentialing space: credentialing ...