Online Learning Update

December 10, 2012

Wellesley College to offer free online learning courses

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

By Lee V. Gaines, Wicked Local Wellesley

Next fall, a portion of Wellesley College classes will be available online to anyone in the world, even men. The college announced today that it is the first liberal arts college and also the first women’s college to join the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology online learning collaborative edX, which offers massive open online courses (MOOCs) EdX was founded by Harvard and MIT and was launched in May 2012 as platform for online learning, and as a way to research how students learn and how technology transforms learning, according to a Wellesley College press release.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/wellesley/news/x1978613768/Wellesley-College-to-offer-free-courses-online#axzz2EKBaPmOh

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