UCI OpenChem aims to promote STEM education
The University of California, Irvine has launched a free online chemistry curriculum that offers videos to students and self-learners. To create UCI OpenChem, UC Irvine partnered with OpenCourseWare,…
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MIT and Harvard pour $60M into “edX” online courses
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the…
MIT brings video game battle to the public
Anyone with a web connection can engage in the marketplace maneuvering, the pressure-packed decision making, and the inevitable price wars that break out among business students at the…
Open-source advocates: Academia, industry must play nice
Compromise between the Ivory Tower and industry, IT experts say, is the future of open-source technologies in higher education.
MIT’s goal: Reach 1 billion with open courseware
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s free course content has reached 100 million people worldwide, and as U.S. campuses experiment with open class material to varying degrees, MIT hopes…
Open courseware on every campus by 2016?
Just as colleges and universities have adopted online classes over the past decade, students can expect free open courseware of some kind at every campus in the U.S.…
Gates Foundation launches $20 million program to expand technology use
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Oct. 11 announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges, a collaborative, multi-year initiative that aims to help dramatically improve college readiness and…
Lawmaker to push for open online textbooks
While college professors and book publishers must abide by new rules aimed at reducing the cost of textbooks, the law's sponsor says he will push for another bill…
New service helps students pinpoint search for open online courses
Sifting through archives of open online course material could soon become easier. A new public beta version of a web-based college course library aims to help students find…
Virtual Symposium examines worldwide growth of online access
Distance learning, open courseware, eBooks, wikis, and many other innovative technologies have forever affected education by connecting any topic in any discipline to any learner in any place.…