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 ...

When MIT and Harvard University started edX nearly a decade ago, it was touted as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online course providers. Today, the universities announced that they are selling ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University will partner with global leader edX, the nonprofit learning destination founded by MIT and Harvard, through a two-year agreement to begin offering a lineup of ...

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 ...

Huge online courses will be coming to the University of Texas System next year, the system announced Monday, Oct. 15. With this news, the University of Texas System becomes the first university system ...

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2U and edX, two major players in the online learning ecosystem, announced Tuesday that they would combine to create an entity that would reach 50 million learners and serve most of the best ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover education as a sector and as the bedrock of all sectors. Each school has committed $30 million to support edX. A yet ...