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Coursera‘s founders may have realized their vision to bring free online education to the masses far sooner than expected.
Just three months after raising their first institutional funding round of $16 million, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers-backed startup has announced a partnership with an additional 12 elite universities, bringing the grand total to 16.
Read more: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/17/coursera-signs-up-12-universities-to-teach-the-world/
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MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences.
The first MITx course, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics), will be launched in an experimental prototype form. Watch this space for further upcoming courses, which will become available in Fall 2012.
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'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.
MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:
GM: ===> This is nearly unbelievable and THAT Innovation in Education! <=== Congratulations MIT for this step to the future of Education!
Olivier's comment,
January 11, 2012 5:08 AM
Great to see all these training material (pdf) published by the MIT #open-source initiative. It's an important step in regard with the trainee (self-learning) and for the trainer (sharing the learning material). It's not collaborative for the moment, but it's an important first step :)
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Gust MEES
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They would allow anyone, anywhere to attend online, take quizzes, ask questions and even get grades for free. They made the announcement with almost no fanfare by sending out a single email to a professional group.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.
Tom George's comment,
January 2, 2012 10:07 AM
Wow if this is true this is huge for education. Thanks for sharing this today.
Gust MEES's comment,
January 2, 2012 10:26 AM
@http://www.scoop.it/u/internet-billboards,
I agree completely with You! That is a revolution, an innovation... Something I am advocating since more than 40 years, FREE Education, I am more than HAPPY to see this starting, WOW :) Here is the link from MIT-Web site, will publish it also now as it looks really unbelievable http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html Have a nice day and best regards, Gust |
