Online Learning Update

November 23, 2012

Gates Backs MIT Online Course Offering at Community Colleges

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

By John Lauerman, Business Week

Two Boston-area community colleges will offer an adapted version of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology online course in computer science with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bunker Hill and MassBay community colleges will list the course — Introduction to Computer Science and Programming — beginning early next year, officials from the colleges said today. The course will combine materials from MIT and Harvard University’s EdX online teaching venture with classroom sessions, they said in a statement.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-18/gates-backs-mit-online-course-offering-at-community-colleges

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