Online Learning Update

December 28, 2013

EdX: Expanding Education Beyond the American University

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

By KRISTINA D. LORCH and CONOR J. REILLEY, Harvard Crimson

This is about experimentation; it’s about research; it’s about rethinking education,” said Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 last May, when the initial partnership between Harvard and MIT was announced. Although conceived by two elite American institutions of higher education, edX has quickly established a global footprint among not only college students, but also working adults and high-schoolers looking to supplement their formal degrees. As edX continues to expand its presence overseas and partners with an increasingly diverse array of non-educational institutions, professors and students agree on the initiative’s international significance but say its precise impact on the landscape of higher education remains uncertain.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/18/edX-global-expansion-degrees/

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