(CBS News) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University are teaming up to bring education to anyone who has an Internet connection. The prestigeous universities will launch a $60 ...

An email claiming to be from the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology declaring that classes were canceled for the day because of "threatening requests" was a hoax, the school said ...

People now buy songs, not albums. They read articles, not newspapers. So why not mix and match learning “modules” rather than lock into 12-week university courses? People now buy songs, not albums.

Stephen Conway works independently at Mass Bay Community College in a computer science course designed in conjunction with online learning from MIT. Such online courses are beginning to level the ...

With all the resources available to Harvard students, it can be easy to forget that Harvard is not the only world-class institution in Cambridge. Just a mile down Massachusetts Avenue, or two stops ...

MIT is taking perhaps its biggest step yet to combine free online classes with its traditional on-campus instruction. The university announced Wednesday at its Solve conference that it will allow ...

Linda Wertheimer talks with Charles Vest, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about the school's offer to create a Web site for most of its classes and to post materials from each ...

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are partnering for a new $60 million initiative to offer free online courses, the schools announced Wednesday. The schools have ...