CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A beloved math professor who pioneered lectures that gave millions of people free access to college classes has retired after 61 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

A stunned but happy world rejoiced two years ago when MIT announced that they were moving to make their course materials available online for the world to freely access. I know I was pumped, and I ...

While it is becoming increasingly common (and easy) for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture last ...

All of Walter Lewin’s 8.01, 8.02, and 8.03 lectures are available on MIT OpenCourseWare: 8.01: Classical Mechanics (Fall 1999) 8.02: Electricity and Magnetism (Spring 2002) 8.03: Vibrations and Waves ...

Learning the skill of coding is now made easier and even free. There are now a number of online educational sites that offer free coding courses which students from anywhere in the world can learn at ...

Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, ...

It's back-to-school season and you can continue your education too with some amazing and free online resources available from top universities. These institutions offer many of their courses in the ...

Project example from MIT OpenCourseWare's Geometric Disciplines and Architecture Skills: Reciprocal Methodologies by Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro. Image Courtesy of Luisel Zayas-San-Miguel ...