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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — 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 change.

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 ...