Today announced a partnership initiative allocated $ 60 million between Harvard University, MIT, to provide free lectures all over the Internet, according to the Boston Globe, which indicated that the new university will be granted complete disciplines simple fee certificates.
http://www.edxonline.org
It will collaborate Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, and Harvard University to provide courses of university independent of the University of carrying Aadicks edX name, an independent non-profit university, becoming Harvard MIT big player in the global education sector over the Internet, which are entering the most prestigious universities around the world. The MIT and had launched a free open-source platform for online education to any university sponsored want to offer online education.
As the two universities will be doing research on how to take advantage of hundreds of thousands of students around the world, from lectures online and monitor the academic performance of students who will be registered in those courses ranging from math and science corn and even engineering and the humanities.
Harvard president predicted that this initiative will occur radical change in the relationship between knowledge and education to benefit students in any place of them.
The Chairperson of the MIT that some may see in this initiative a shift threatens their existence or that they see as a shift holds tremendous potential in the education sector.
Education over the Internet is not the enemy of education on campus, but an ally complement one another and give him the freedom to innovate.
Harvard University also indicate in a statement that the initiative allows gather important data about education techniques such as utility re-watch the video or not, and the period required, on average, to absorb the substance, and the level of success of the delivery of information means without the other.
Harvard University does not consider that the initiative impair the reputation as the opinion of MIT is also the University, but also enhance their reputation and leadership globally and locally.
Harafard will be announced for the first Msaqatha this summer to begin in the coming winter include computer science and social sciences and humanities. http://www.edxonline.org
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