Harvard and MIT teamed up for this open-source online education platform
It’s often said that the internet makes it possible for anyone to get educated on any subject. But just as in offline modes of education, the many models of online teaching and learning are far from perfect, with plenty of room for improvement and innovation.A joint effort between Harvard and MIT — dubbed EdX — is aiming to provide not only a place for learning new skills, but a platform for innovating new ways of teaching and learning over the web. It’s a non-profit online education platform partnered with nearly 100 of the world’s leading universities and institutions – Harvard, MIT, Microsoft, Caltech, Columbia, you get the picture – to provide students anywhere in the world access to more than 1,000 certified courses. As an open source platform, it also…
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