Online Learning Update

December 28, 2011

MIT to Expand Online Learning

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

by Sue Gee, i-Programmer

MIT has announced an online learning initiative that will offer its courses through a new interactive learning platform that will enable students to participate in simulated labs, interact with professors and other students and earn certificates. The MITx initiative is being led by MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif. According to Provost Reif: “Students worldwide are increasingly supplementing their classroom education with a variety of online tools. Many members of the MIT faculty have been experimenting with integrating online tools into the campus education. We will facilitate those efforts, many of which will lead to novel learning technologies that offer the best possible online educational experience to non-residential learners. Both parts of this new initiative are extremely important to the future of high-quality, affordable, accessible education.”

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/3504-mit-to-expand-online-learning.html

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