One reality of higher education in 2024 that seems to be little understood by those outside of universities is that opportunities to participate in high-quality free and low-cost online learning ...

Students who registered for massive open online courses at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the edX platform showed steep falloffs in enrollment from their ...

Harvard has unveiled a new addition to its HarvardX virtual education platform, which will for the first time charge between about $200 and $500 for enrollment in online courses, signaling a move ...

HarvardX, the University’s branch of the online learning venture edX, this month announced its roster of new fall courses, including the platform’s first offering that will initially be open ...

Yesterday I got a peek behind the curtain. Previous StratEDgy posts have addressed the rise of MOOCS and MOCCs (our own term for Mid-sized Online Closed Courses) and edX – and today about 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 ...

Today, my colleagues and I from the HarvardX and MITx research teams released a new report: HarvardX and MITx: Two Years of Open Online Courses Fall 2012-Summer 2014. In it we present key findings ...

HarvardX, a Harvard University strategic initiative, is running a massive open online course (MOOC) featuring adaptive learning and assessment algorithms, which tailor course material in response to ...

I met Anant Agarwal at edX the other day and introduced myself, and he asked me, “What research questions are you most excited about answering?” It was a good question, asked with a genuine and ...