by Chilton Tippin, Signal News
With the announcement of a new educational program called MITx, in which MIT will offer online classes culminating in a certificate of completion, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is breaking new ground in free online education. Ten years ago, the university launched OpenCourseWare (OCW), an initiative to make hundreds of lectures and materials ubiquitous online. Since OCW’s inception, more than 100 million people have accessed the online classes, which range from computer programming, to chemical engineering, to physics, to literature. MITx takes the initiative a step farther in a few important ways. First of all, it allows people who take the online classes to earn a certification of mastery. Second, it will make the open-source software infrastructure freely available to educational institutions worldwide, thereby hoping to encourage other universities to share their materials.
http://signalnews.com/mit-offer-online-classes-certificates-to-public-849
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