Posted by David Haden, Spotted in the news
A few days ago MIT announced its first “fully automated” online course. Reportedly it’s a full MIT course, not watered down or crippled in any way — except in the total lack of the human element. Admitted the course/module is on a fairly nerdy topic. The title is “6.002x: Circuits and Electronics”, which no doubt makes it as amenable to being as logical and streamlined as the circuit boards it studies. One has to wonder quite how easy it would be to undermine such a system with cheating and note-passing by successful students. But doubtless the brilliant minds at MIT have long since nailed shut that possibility. The course is also free, at least to the end user. To someone long skeptical of automated e-learning, it sounds like an interesting development.
http://jurnsearch.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/mits-new-teacher-free-online-course/
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