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 ...

Global Distance Learning Industry

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Capella Education Company to Present at Upcoming Investor Conference

Capella Education Company , a provider of online post-secondary education, primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary Capella University, today announced its partic

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

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

Open for business? Why universities must collaborate on OpenCourseWare

The digital revolution has begun and successful institutions will be those that use the opportunity to collaborate, grow and widen their influence, says Anka Mulder Leading higher education specialists from across the world convened at Cambridge University in April for a landmark global conference on the future of online learning . The contrast here between the ancient and the modern, the ...