When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced an ambitious plan to give away online materials for every course, officials wondered whether other colleges and universities would follow suit.

Open courseware has been a transformative boon for do-it-yourself learners and institutions — particularly foreign universities — that lack the resources to develop top-flight courses and course ...

At 83, Marian C. Diamond has been teaching anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley, for 50 years. Her class is so popular that it’s difficult for students to get in, though she holds court ...

Just as colleges and universities have adopted online classes over the past decade, students can expect free open courseware of some kind at every campus in the U.S.… ...

The internet is used to learn about almost anything if you can find it. Much of the Massive Open Online Content (MOOC) even comes from well known universities. Here we link to useful articles and ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. I have just enrolled in a university course called Introduction to Sociology taught out of Princeton ...