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MIT To Expand Online Learning and Offer Certificates

Posted by Soulskill on from the expanding-the-internet-of-learning dept.

mikejuk writes "MIT has announced an online learning initiative that will offer its courses through a new interactive learning platform that will enable students to participate in simulated labs, interact with professors and other students and earn certificates. Is this just a reaction to the Stanford experiment in running courses complete with exams and informal statements of accomplishment? (The first AI course has just finished and the exam results are in.) If so let's hope it spurs other educational establishments to do the same!"

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  1. Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    University of Phoenix has been doing this for years.

  2. Stanford experiment? by Detaer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I love it when the words stanford and experiment are used in a sentence, it gets so much better when the word prison is also added.