Online Learning Update

November 20, 2012

Gates grant to help Georgia Tech develop online learning courses

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

By Laura Diamond, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia Tech has been tapped to participate in a national effort to expand free student access to quality online college courses. The college received $150,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create three introductory courses to be taught online. The classes — in physics, psychology and first-year composition — will be offered next fall and geared toward students who have yet to start college or earn a degree. The foundation awarded grants to nine colleges, including Duke University and Ohio State University, to develop these massive open online courses, also known as MOOCs. It was part of a series of 12 awards — worth more than $3 million — to invest in this growing market. “MOOCs are an exciting innovation,” Dan Greenstein, director of postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said in a statement. “They hold great promise but are not without challenges, and we are still discovering their full potential.”

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/gates-grant-to-help-georgia-tech-develop-online-co/nS7y6/

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