2U completes purchase of edX, creating 'free to degree' platform

Image:  Months after Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stunned the education-technology world by announcing they would sell the nonprofit online platform they created to a technology giant, the merger of the two entities, 2U and edX, became final today. Leaders of the two companies said the combination would offer a huge range of educational opportunities and become “the most important platform company” in education. The road to this moment had its...