When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced an ambitious plan to give away online materials for every course, officials wondered whether other colleges and universities would follow suit.

Nine in 10 MIT undergraduates say they use open courseware. Just as colleges and universities have adopted online classes over the past decade, students can expect free open courseware of some kind at ...

Open courseware has been a transformative boon for do-it-yourself learners and institutions — particularly foreign universities — that lack the resources to develop top-flight courses and course ...