The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) courses available for free through its OpenCourseWare platform. The courses cover everything from ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun the pilot phase of its closely watched plan to create detailed Web pages for nearly all of its courses and develop courseware tools that other ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Students who may once have had to decide whether to apply to Harvard or MIT are now making the best of both worlds. Particularly in computer science at the graduate level, students from MIT are coming ...

Many of the students in Rebekka L. Stone’s biology classes hope to become the first in their families to graduate from high school. Some are struggling to master basic English, much less the more ...

After a whirlwind nine months that has witnessed a rapid rebirth of online education at elite U.S. universities in the form of massively open online courses, or MOOCs, Harvard University threw its hat ...

Krishna Rajagopal is a professor of theoretical physics at MIT who studies the very first moments of the newborn Universe. Since 2017, he has been MIT’s Dean for Digital Learning, leading MIT ...