University News

Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.

Harvard Business School academic growth plans

The Business School dean is bullish on engineering and data-science collaborations, and online learning.

by John S. Rosenberg

Online learning evolves at Harvard and elsewhere

Online learning, evolving at Harvard and beyond, attracts critical analysis.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Law dean to depart and other news briefs

The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more

MOOCs in the Classroom, and for Degrees

MOOC technology in classroom use, for degrees, and more

by John S. Rosenberg

Allston science center unveiled, online learning, faculty awards, and more

University news briefs: retaining recruits, online learning, appointments, awards, and more

Yale students greet Harvard's CS50 in "educational experiment"

Notes from New Haven, where the most popular course this semester hails from Harvard.

by Maya Averbuch

Harvard MOOC online learning lessons from edX

Harvard and MIT researchers mine masses of data about online learning—and begin to address applications to campus classrooms.

by John S. Rosenberg

HILT conference on engagement and distance in learning and teaching

Harvard explores learning, teaching, and institutional change.

Harvard College admissions, business school center, endowment compensation

Harvard Business School’s Chao Center, College admissions, endowment managers’ compensation, and more

Assessing online course enrollments

The first analyses of online-course registrants—and "dropouts"—and other MOOC news