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  • A bet that has paid off 500 million times over

    May 18, 2026
    Nearly 200 people gathered on campus for MIT OpenCourseWare’s 25th Anniversary Symposium to hear from MIT leadership, faculty, and staff, OpenCourseWare learners and educators, and early and new funders of the program.

  • Q&A: Expanding MIT’s global reach through Universal Learning

    May 12, 2026
    Universal Learning combines the subject matter expertise of MIT faculty and Open Learning’s more than 25 years of innovation in online education to deliver a learning experience centered on real-world stories, practical exercises, and the needs of global learners.

  • Universal AI is “a pathway to AI fluency that’s accessible and approachable to anyone, anywhere”

    May 12, 2026
    Universal AI is an online, self-paced, modular program that takes a learner’s understanding of AI from novice to fluency, leading with foundational competencies and building to industry-specific applications. The first course in the program, Fundamentals of Programming and Machine Learning, is available for free to learners everywhere.

  • From space to AI, Day of Climate returns to explore the frontiers of climate innovation

    May 11, 2026
    A large crowd watches Suni Williams in a NASA flight suit with a photo of Earth of space on the screen behind her.

  • MIT marks first Robert R. Taylor Day with Tuskegee University

    May 5, 2026
    At the MIT Museum, MIT community members gathered around archival materials from Robert R. Taylor's time at the Institute. The encounter situates Taylor’s work as an active point of reference for teaching, research, and ongoing collaboration.

  • Perspective: Addressing the climate blind spot in AI literacy

    May 4, 2026
    Overhead view of a forest with sustainability related icons overlaid

  • Explore MIT’s online courses in top-ranked subjects

    April 27, 2026
    MIT students walking on campus

  • A lifetime of perseverance, powered by MIT Open Learning

    April 14, 2026
    A side-by-side collage of two scenes in an academic setting. On the left, a desk holds an open binder filled with handwritten notes, positioned in front of a computer monitor displaying a crowded lecture hall with a professor at the front. On the right, two men sit and smile in a book-lined office with large windows.

  • Seven MIT faculty and instructors awarded by students for their outstanding use of technology to improve learning

    April 13, 2026
    Headshots of award winners: David Autor, Héctor Beltrán, Christian Cardozo, Barbara Hughey, Wakana Maekawa, Basima Tewfik, John Thomas

  • Learning with audiobooks

    April 9, 2026
    Students who struggle with reading learn significantly more when audiobooks are paired with explicit one-on-one instruction, according to an MIT McGovern Institute study.
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