By Tanya Roscorla, Center for Digital Education
Massachusetts community colleges are exploring how an MITx course will work for their students. MassBay and Bunker Hill community colleges plan to offer an adapted version of the Introduction to Computer Science and Programming course in spring 2013. This course is part of university offerings on edX, which provides a platform for universities to open courses with no fee to large numbers of students. These massively open online courses, MOOCs for short, have exploded this year as more universities partner with edX, Udacity, Coursera, 2U and other platform providers. “What Harvard and MIT have done in spinning off edX I think is a major step in bringing further democracy to education, not just in America, but in the world,” said John O’Donnell, president of MassBay Community College.
http://www.centerdigitaled.com/news/MITx-Course-Community-College.html
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