Inside Higher Ed

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

Almost two years ago, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sold edX, their pioneering massive open online course provider, to 2U, an online program management company. At ...
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 ...
Campus Technology

MIT and Arizona State University Create Stacked Master's Degree on EdX

A new collaboration between edX, Arizona State University and MIT has resulted in an online master's degree program in Supply Chain Management that stacks credits from both universities. Students who ...
Inside Higher Ed

2U and edX Merger Benefits Both

2U and edX, major players in slightly different corners of the online learning market, announced Tuesday that they would join forces. The merger of 2U, a publicly traded online program management ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cult of Mac

Harvard and MIT teamed up for this open-source online education platform

This post is brought to you by EdX. It’s often said that the internet makes it possible for anyone to get educated on any subject. But just as in offline modes of education, the many models of online ...
Campus Technology

Western Governors University Joins Open edX as a Mission-Aligned Organization

Western Governors University is the first organization to join the Open edX project as a "mission-aligned organization" (MAO), a new category of institution-level partnership supporting development of ...
EdSurge

EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program

EdX, the nonprofit online-education group founded by MIT and Harvard, is quietly developing a “MicroBachelors” degree that is designed to break the undergraduate credential into Lego-like components. ...