Anant Agarwal, the longtime leader of edX, saw his MIT online course about circuits go viral a decade ago. He says his focus is on educational opportunity, not profits. Nearly 10 years later, Coursera ...

This article is part of the collection: A Lifetime of Back to School: Microcredentials in Higher Education. No one owns the term “master’s degree.” But upstart education providers dream of getting a ...

How can a nonprofit organization that gives away courses bring in enough revenue to at least cover its costs? That’s the dilemma facing edX, a project led by Harvard University and the Massachusetts ...

2U and edX, major players in slightly different corners of the online learning market, announced Tuesday that they would join forces. The merger of 2U, a publicly traded online program management ...

When Harvard and MIT last year sold edX, the online course provider they jointly launched in 2012, the University’s top administrators said the change of hands would ensure the sustainability of the ...

edX, the global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. is launching a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence MicroBootCamp program in partnership with 12 American universities. The online ...

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Months after Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stunned the education-technology world by announcing they would sell the nonprofit online platform they created to a ...

2U, a SaaS platform that helps nonprofits and colleges run online universities, plans to acquire all the assets of Harvard and MIT-founded edX for a deal north of $600 million, according to multiple ...