How can a nonprofit organization that gives away courses bring in enough revenue to at least cover its costs? That’s the dilemma facing edX, a project led by Harvard University and the Massachusetts ...

This article is part of the collection: A Lifetime of Back to School: Microcredentials in Higher Education. No one owns the term “master’s degree.” But upstart education providers dream of getting a ...

Five years and 11 million students on, Anant Agarwal, chief executive of the nonprofit organization, says there is still plenty of innovation to come from the venture and its university partners: ...

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 ...

Higher ed is trying to wrap its collective head around the announcement of 2U's $800 million acquisition of edX. There is much to chew on regarding what this deal means for current edX and 2U partners ...

We'll forgive you if you failed to take MIT up on its offer take its courses for free when it rolled out its MITx online learning platform last year. However, Harvard took notice of its efforts, and ...

In less than a week, two more institutions of higher education—Wellesley College and Georgetown University—have partnered with edX, the rapidly growing online educational venture started by Harvard ...

Critiques about MOOCs, centered around low completion rates, may be fair and valid. But these concerns are framed in the traditional benchmarks for what makes a college course successful. In June 2013 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Cohan, a Boston-based senior contributor, covers stocks. Online education is getting a sudden burst of media attention. That ...