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April 1, 2014

Indians No. 2 users of MIT-Harvard e-courses

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Sujit John,TNN Times of India

Over 2.5 lakh Indians have registered for courses on edX, the massive open online course (Mooc) platform founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in May 2012 to host online university-level courses. This makes Indians the second largest community, after Americans, to register for these courses, said edX president Anant Agarwal, an Indian American who grew up in Mangalore and who has been teaching the circuits & electronics course in MIT for 26 years. The courses have been put together and are led by some of the finest professors in the world. Students require just an internet connection. The courses are free, can be normally completed within a duration of 4 weeks to 12 weeks, and those who complete them receive a certificate from the university that provides the course.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/jobs/Indians-No-2-users-of-MIT-Harvard-e-courses/articleshow/32481530.cms

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