MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Anant Agarwal has personified the educator-entrepreneur, as he has had a foot in academe and a foot in new ventures for more than a decade. He ...

THE WINDOWS of Anant Agarwal’s new corner office on the seventh floor of MIT’s Stata Center overlook the classroom, lab, and office buildings that crowd the heart of campus, now quiet in its summer ...

As educators we're increasingly aware that our students will need to extend their education far beyond graduation. Many will broaden and update their professional interests; some may switch fields ...

The MOOC was The Next Big Thing---and then it was written off for dead. But for Anant Agarwal, one of the founding fathers of this online reboot of university education, it's only just getting started ...

Five years and 11 million students on, Anant Agarwal, chief executive of the nonprofit organization, says there is still plenty of innovation to come from the venture and its university partners: ...

Anant Agarwal, CEO of the nonprofit MOOC platform provider edX, had some harsh words for traditional education, saying it's "pathetic" that classrooms today still look like the did decades ago. And, ...

The National Academy of Inventors have accepted 23 fellows from Ohio State since 2013 and Anant Agarwal is one of three in the most recent cohort. Agarwal, a professor in electrical and computer ...

When Anant Agarwal was a young man, he entered the most competitive college admissions tournament in the world. Every year, nearly half a million students compete for only 10,000 spots in the ...