CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has offered free online courses for the last four years with one major downside: They didn't count toward a degree. That's about to ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIT is moving all classes online and expecting undergraduate students to move out of their dormitories by Tuesday, as universities throughout New England step up their efforts to contain the spread of ...

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 ...