Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
After acquiring his entire elementary and secondary education from OpenCourseWare and MITx, Ahaan Rungta joined the MIT Class of 2019 at age 15.
FAQs on MIT’s new path to a master’s degree
Pilot program reimagines admissions process, introduces “MicroMaster’s.”
Online courses + time on campus = a new path to an MIT master’s degree
Pilot program reimagines admissions process, introduces “MicroMaster’s.”
Innovative humanities MOOC, “Visualizing Japan,” nominated for the Japan Prize
In a Q&A, course co-founder Professor Shigeru Miyagawa discusses his unique online course and its impact on digital education.
MIT hosts discussion on scaling STEM education
President Reif and Congressman Joe Kennedy III lead an afternoon of discussions on how to bring quality STEM education to all.
Study identifies new cheating method in MOOCs
Research from MIT and Harvard shows how to exploit and protect MOOC certification.
Helping students stick with MOOCs
New techniques could help identify students at risk for dropping out of online courses.
MIT creates new Online Education Policy Initiative
Project brings together leaders in learning sciences, social sciences, and cognitive sciences to collaborate on a vision for the future of online learning.
Learning by teaching in a different culture
MISTI Global Teaching Labs has reached over 10,000 foreign high-school students with summer internships and research opportunities.
Study on MOOCs provides new insights on an evolving space
Findings suggest many teachers enroll, learner intentions matter, and cost boosts completion rates.
Making more than pretty pictures
Felice Frankel uses strong visual vocabulary to eliminate ambiguity and sell ideas.
A week at MIT
Workshop on quantitative methods in biology draws diverse undergrads from across the country.
$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development
Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab to include focus on China.