Inside Higher Ed

Whatever Happened to MIT and Harvard’s Big EdX Profit?

The two institutions debuted Axim Collaborative, a new nonprofit focused on broadening college access. The new venture offers a bold vision with scant details. Almost two years ago, Harvard University ...
Inside Higher Ed

2U Completes Purchase of edX

Months after Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stunned the education-technology world by announcing they would sell the nonprofit online platform they created to a ...
WBUR

Cambridge-Based Online Learning Platform edX To Be Acquired By 2U

The online learning platform known as 2U announced Tuesday that it will be acquiring edX, a nonprofit platform run by Harvard and MIT, for $800 million. Officials with edX say the group sought the ...
EdSurge

2U Buys edX for $800M, In Surprise End to Nonprofit MOOC Provider Started by MIT and Harvard

When MIT and Harvard University started edX nearly a decade ago, it was touted as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online course providers. Today, the universities announced that they are selling ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, MIT To Sell Online Learning Platform edX to Tech Startup

Harvard University and MIT will sell edX — a virtual learning initiative launched jointly by the two schools in 2012 to expand education access — to the Maryland-based tech startup 2U, Inc., the ...
TechCrunch

2U set to acquire nonprofit edX for deal north of $600M

2U, a SaaS platform that helps nonprofits and colleges run online universities, plans to acquire all the assets of Harvard and MIT-founded edX for a deal north of $600 million, according to multiple ...
The Business Journals

edX acquired: Harvard, MIT to sell online learning platform for $800M

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. MIT and Harvard University have announced a major ...
VentureBeat

Open edX: The open source learning management system for corporations and non-profits

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More This month marks the third birthday of edX, the online learning platform ...
Computerworld

Harvard, MIT online learning portal to help Web, classroom learning

An online education organization backed and funded by MIT and Harvard University will use open-source technology to offer free classes over the Internet, the two schools announced Wednesday at a press ...
Hosted on MSN

Free MIT courses on edX raise career outcome concerns

MIT has released over 40 free courses on edX, covering fields from AI to supply chain management, without certificates or graded work. Reviews highlight edX’s flexible, university-level learning ...
MIT Technology Review

Open learning

In 1999, President Charles Vest asked a faculty committee how best to use the internet to further MIT’s mission. Its revolutionary recommendation: put all of MIT’s course materials online for free. In ...