New Equation For Free Education: MITx + HARVARDx = edX

Just five months ago the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) introduced MITx, an online learning platform offering free online courses for anyone, anywhere to earn certificates in distance coursework. I covered the development in my popular Forbes piece, ?MIT Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All.? Now, according to Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Yahoo! News, Harvard has partnered with ...

MITx + HARVARDx = edX. The New Equation For Free Education?

The goal of edX is to "educate a billion people around the world."

MIT, Harvard link up with free online courses

BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free. The two schools, located near each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are teaming up on an initiative called edX only five months after MIT rolled out MITx, its online learning system which ...

Tegrity Celebrates 6th Annual User Conference By Honoring Institutions Of Excellence With Customer Appreciation Awards

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tegrity , a unit of McGraw-Hill Higher Education and a leading provider of lecture capture solutions for the higher education industry, today announced ...

As MIT and Harvard Announce Online Classes, Online Education Becomes More Relevant: AspiringNurse.com Will Help ...

Tuesday, May 9th, 2012, Harvard and MIT announced the creation of edX. This is a new partnership in online education. These top schools have partnered together to officer online classes that are completely free. With the explosion of online learning, the site, Aspiring Nurse, will be able to help students earn online degrees.Lehi, Utah (PRWEB) May 11, 2012 Two of the top college institutions ...