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February 12, 2014

Online Education Has a Loneliness Problem. Can Harvard Fix It?

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By Amy S. Choi, Business Week

Business education at Harvard will go online with “Innovating in Health Care,” a course beginning March 31 on HarvardX, the university’s online learning platform. It will be the first HarvardX class taught by a dedicated business school instructor: Regina Herzlinger, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. The main goal of her online class is to spur collaboration, interaction, and networking, but that’s difficult when crowded classrooms are replaced with the solitary glow of a home computer monitor. To overcome the separation factor, she’ll employ a clever collaboration of her own: Project Lever, a “sort of EHarmony for building businesses” into the edX platform. Project Lever was designed as a way to match students with the best resources for their research projects. In Herzlinger’s course, students will use Project Lever to connect with classmates whose skills complement theirs.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-06/harvard-offers-health-care-innovation-online-course

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