By Peter Foster, Telegraph
Self-starting students in Britain and around the world will soon be able earn bona fide qualifications from some of America’s top Ivy League universities in a scheme that aims to give new credibility to the explosion in the popularity of online learning last year. The plan, which will be launched by edX, a consortium of universities led by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will enable their new online students to sit properly invigilated tests that will have hard currency with employers and universities. 2012 saw a phenomenal acceleration of interest in online education – so called Massive Open Online Courses, or Moocs – with leading US universities offering free courses by their top professors that attracted tens of thousands of subscribers each.
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