By Maggie Cassidy, Concord Monitor
Dartmouth College will join dozens of other institutions next fall in offering online courses to learners around the globe.College officials yesterday announced Dartmouth has become the 31st institution to join edX, an online learning platform that was founded by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dartmouth’s partnership with edX means that a to-be-determined group of the college’s professors will moderate “massive open online courses” – known in academia as MOOCs – which will be accessible, generally for free, by anybody who signs up at the edX website.
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