MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday October 8, 2015 @03:06AM from the a-course-is-a-course,-of-course,-of-course dept.

jyosim writes: In what could usher a new way of doing college admissions at elite colleges, MIT is experimenting with weighing MOOC performance as proof that students should be accepted to on-campus programs. The idea is to fix the "inexact science" of sorting through candidates from all over the world. And it gives students a better sense of what they're getting into: "When you buy a car, you take a test drive. Wouldn't it be a great value for prospective students to take a test course before they apply?" said one academic blogger.

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MOOC = Massive Open Online Course by wasteoid · 2015-10-08 03:18 · Score: 5, Informative

For those like me who don't automatically know what some random acronym means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Also, shame on submitter / editor for not including acronym expansion.