James Brown’s Historic Concert, Staged 24 Hours After Martin Luther King’s Assassination, Is Now Restored and Free to Watch Online

Thanks to James Brown’s official YouTube channel, you can now watch a remastered and restored version…

A Surprising Approach to Science Labs for Online Students Boosts Access to STEM Fields

When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative. Institutions are using virtual…

1,800 Hand-Cut Silhouettes of 19th-Century Historical Figures Get Digitized & Put Online by the Smithsonian

With the exception of Kara Walker’s provocative cut paper narratives, silhouettes haven’t struck us as a…

AEUP to create new online catalogue on ScienceOpen.

The Association of European University Presses (AEUP) aims to provide a new catalogue service to their…

The Smithsonian Puts 4.5 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Use

That vast repository of American history that is the Smithsonian Institution evolved from an organization founded…

Enroll Today for Online Courses with Stanford Continuing Studies: Open Culture Readers Get 15% Off

A heads up for Open Culture readers: This spring, Stanford Continuing Studies has a rich lineup…

What Does It Mean to Deliver a ‘Black College Education’ Online?

Jasper Smith did not spend her freshman year at Howard University studying in the red-brick buildings…

A Free Online University Has Grown to 126,000 Students. What Can It Teach Traditional Colleges?

When Shai Reshef started a free online university called University of the People nearly 15 years…

YouTube & Arizona State University Team Up to Offer Online Courses for Real College Credits

A recent Pew Research Center survey found that nearly one in five American teenagers is on…

Sal Khan’s New Online School Wants to Make ‘Mastery Learning’ Global

For 50 ninth graders, showing up to school this fall meant taking part in an experiment.…