By Thomas K. Lindsay, National Review
The growing benefits of online education recently have come together in one revolutionary package, via the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the end of December 2011, MIT announced its plan to inaugurate an online education program titled “MITx.” As detailed in its website, MITx will offer a subset of MIT’s courses, free of charge, through an online learning platform that will “organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace; feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication; allow for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx”; and, finally, “operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.” MIT’s vision is ambitious, to say the least: It “expects that MITx will eventually host a virtual community of millions of learners around the world.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/294002/next-step-online-learning-mitx-thomas-k-lindsay
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