Instructors often ask, “Is a live lecture preferable to a pre-recorded lecture?” In the realm of online teaching and learning, pre-recorded content is always preferable to live lectures because ...

Unlike their face-to-face counterparts on campus, online courses are predominantly asynchronous where the students (and faculty) each determine when they will engage and participate in their online ...

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 ...

This fall, students enrolled in CS50, Harvard’s behemoth introductory Computer Science course, will only be asked to attend two lectures in person. The new policy, one of a host of changes announced ...

For 10 weeks this summer, tens of thousands of students from Bremerton to Bangalore turned on their computers each week to learn, for free, the secrets of public speaking skills from Matt McGarrity.

The cost of learning just got cheaper. Here are twelve free online resources for learning today's leading technology skills. Education doesn’t have to be expensive — there are plenty of free courses ...

When Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos launched "Psychology and the Good Life" on the New Haven campus earlier this year, 1,200 students—about one-fourth university's undergraduate ...

The internet age has brought sexual harassment to the digital realm on a lot of platforms—social networks, dating websites—even online education. On the last point: Monday, MIT removed the popular ...