MIT and Harvard invest 60 million dollars in distance learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University are launching a joint project of distance learning EdX . Each of the universities will invest $ 30 million in the development of the platform and the creation of online versions of their courses. The project is based on the MITx infrastructure, created in Massachusetts technology.
Education will be free for all, and for a moderate fee you can get an official certificate of completion of the course (though not from the universities themselves, but only from EdX). Harvard and MIT are hoping that other universities will join their project. The software on which EdX will run will be open and free. The first courses on the EdX platform will be available in the fall of 2012.
In addition to online learning, the EdX platform will be used by participating university students as an additional and experimental tool, and teachers will be able to improve and complement courses based on feedback from a huge number of students from all over the world.
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Interactive automated distance learning is the most significant trend in education in recent years. Among American universities, one of the pioneers was Stanford University, or rather several of its teachers, who did the first online courses practically on their knees. Distant learning projects such as khanacademy or the newly established Stanford pioneers udacity and coursera have been booming .
Although many universities, including MIT, have long begun to lay out teaching materials and lectures for free access, it was an interactive presentation of the material, with tests, competitions, exams and a clear timetable that made online courses so popular. The credibility of leading US universities and solid funding gives EdX a good chance of catching up and overtaking competitors in this area.
Education will be free for all, and for a moderate fee you can get an official certificate of completion of the course (though not from the universities themselves, but only from EdX). Harvard and MIT are hoping that other universities will join their project. The software on which EdX will run will be open and free. The first courses on the EdX platform will be available in the fall of 2012.
In addition to online learning, the EdX platform will be used by participating university students as an additional and experimental tool, and teachers will be able to improve and complement courses based on feedback from a huge number of students from all over the world.
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Interactive automated distance learning is the most significant trend in education in recent years. Among American universities, one of the pioneers was Stanford University, or rather several of its teachers, who did the first online courses practically on their knees. Distant learning projects such as khanacademy or the newly established Stanford pioneers udacity and coursera have been booming .
Although many universities, including MIT, have long begun to lay out teaching materials and lectures for free access, it was an interactive presentation of the material, with tests, competitions, exams and a clear timetable that made online courses so popular. The credibility of leading US universities and solid funding gives EdX a good chance of catching up and overtaking competitors in this area.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/143226/
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