Canadian universities are agog after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wednesday announced what appears to be a world first: It is making most of its course materials available to the public ...

The institution that led the call for freely available lectures, videos, and exams created by its instructors and shared with the world will now do the same with online learning. The Massachusetts ...

We'll forgive you if you failed to take MIT up on its offer take its courses for free when it rolled out its MITx online learning platform last year. However, Harvard took notice of its efforts, and ...

HID Global supports the responsible use of RFID technology so that privacy protections are considered in all applications. According to Denis Hébert, the company’s president and CEO, “We are pleased ...

It's hard to find anyone who'd argue that websites load too quickly. Mobile pages constantly creak under the weight of complex visual elements and ad networks. It's led to an ad-blocking boom, ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music – creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how the arachnids spin their complex ...

Google launched an open source course building web application for the growing list of K-12 and big-name universities developing online classes. The barebones website is a lightweight way to bring ...

In the past year, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have emerged to be a major trend in the education space, witnessed by the rapid takeoff of online universities such as Coursera, Udacity, and EdX.

For stay-at-home parents, motivated teachers and students overseas, a top-notch education is now only a click away. MIT is proceeding with the next phase of its “distance learning” project, the ...