Want an Ivy League education but don’t want to pay Ivy League prices? That’s not exactly what you’ll get from Harvard’s offerings at iTunes U, but you’re sure to find plenty of quality, ...

"An artwork whose medium is history," is how Harvard University Professor Peter K. Bol, borrowing a line from the China scholar Haun Saussy, defines China. With fellow Harvard Professor William C.

The Harvard computer science professor David J. Malan has reversed course on his recommendation from last year that the 800 students in his CS50 course skip attending most of the semester’s lectures ...

Harvard launched its own channel yesterday on iTunes U, a part of the online store that provides largely free access to educational materials. It joined other educational heavyweights distributing ...

Web site Academic Earth is like Hulu for academic lectures, pulling free lectures from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale into one attractive, easy to navigate site. It's incredible ...

Could you distill your entire field into an hourlong presentation? Some leading scholars are taking up that challenge in a for-profit educational video venture that debuts next month. It’s called the ...

Eight undergraduates presented lectures on eight topics ranging from modern-day slavery to Renaissance architecture before an audience that filled the Adams House Pool Theater last Friday. This second ...

To attend the Nobel Prize awarding in Oslo on December 10, she would have to file another batch of travel requests before all the courts handling the seven cases The Philippine Court of Appeals (CA) ...

My story has occasioned a healthy amount of reaction around the web, including from TED and Chris Anderson himself. First, the snark: Maura at The Awl (a commentary site run by ex-Gawkers) calls the ...

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