by Academic Earth
Students taking online courses from prestigious US universities will be able to take final exams in a global network of invigilated test centers. Education company Pearson will provide test centres for the edX online courses provided by Harvard and MIT. This will give online courses “real world” value, says the edX president. As well as providing supervised exam centres they will also authenticate the identity of online learners. It will also see formidable partnership between some of the world’s most famous universities and the world’s biggest education firm, Pearson. This year has seen growing interest in the idea of delivering university courses online – allowing universities to reach much bigger numbers of students and cutting the cost of tuition.
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