by Charlie Osborne, ZDNet
Almost 155,000 people registered for 6.002x. Out of these subscribers, 23,000 tried the first problem exercises, 9,000 passed the midterm, and 7,157 passed the course as a whole. As Anant Agarwal pointed out, “If you look at the number in absolute terms, it’s as many students as might take the course in 40 years at MIT.” Furthermore, that is 7,157 people who passed the course and now have an enhanced knowledge of electronics — something that is needed desperately across the globe. That may not make much of a dent in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) worker shortage, but it’s certainly a start. Remember, this was just one course, and one prototype. Agarwal also believes that rates of completion will increase once more courses are on offer, saying: “In some sense, this course popped up out of nowhere. It requires a background in physics, a background in calculus, a background in differential equations. Over time, edX will have courses on each of those three prerequisites, and we can point students to those courses if they don’t have the background.”
http://www.zdnet.com/what-did-the-mitx-experiment-teach-us-7000000959/
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