Are College Campuses Obsolete?
On one recent night, the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate series put forth a motion on Columbia University’s campus: “More Clicks, Fewer Bricks: The Lecture Hall Is Obsolete.”

The Student Becomes the Teacher 1.3k 366 5 What MIT learned from a Mongolian teenager who aced a MOOC.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Over the past year, a boy genius from Mongolia has been schooling MIT on how to improve the elite institution’s free online courses. When he was just 15, the Mongolian wunderkind Bat

This summer, you can learn Linux free & online from Harvard & MIT
Want to learn Linux? The Linux Foundation announced today that it will be offering its $2,400 “Introduction to Linux” course for free through edX, the Harvard/MIT online learning platform.

edX, Facebook to partner to create free social education mobile app for students in Rwanda
Cambridge-based online education nonprofit edX is partnering with Facebook, other companies and the government of Rwanda to launch SocialEDU, a pilot initiative that will give students in the African

Inside the First-Year Data from MITx and HarvardX
Last week, MIT and Harvard University released a series of working papers based on data from 17 massive open online courses offered on the edX platform from 2012-2013. The goal of the study was "to re

Anant Agarwal: Why massive open online courses (still) matter
2013 was a year of hype for MOOCs (massive open online courses). Great big numbers and great big hopes were followed by some disappointing first results. But the head of edX, Anant Agarwal, makes the

What Modularity Means for MOOCs
Reporting to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at length for the first time since he was appointed vice provost for advances in learning last September, Peter K. Bol highlighted shifts in the landscape for the much-publicized massive open online courses (MOOCs).

Disrupting Higher Education in the US
Gene Wade, UniversityNow founder & CEO, and Anant Agarwal, edX president, discuss how they are trying to make education more accessible and affordable to everyone. “Education is a basic human right,” Agarwal says.

The (Off-Campus) Future of MIT
ORLANDO -- Anant Agarwal has quit cold turkey - coffee, that is. But the president of edX, the massive open online course provider co-founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of T

First MOOC Portal for Arab World Will Be Powered by edX Platform
The "first massive open online course portal for the Arab world," spearheaded by leaders of the country of Jordan, will be powered by open source platform edX, the Cambridge-based collaborative education platform.