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Interview: Ask CEO Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Online Education

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-ahead-and-ask dept.

Anant Agarwal is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the CEO of edX. A massive open online course platform founded by MIT and Harvard, edX offers numerous courses on a wide variety of subjects. As of 2014 edX had more than 4 million students taking more than 500 courses online. The organization has developed open-source software called Open edX that powers edX courses and is freely available online. Mr. Agarwal has agreed to take some time out of his schedule and answer your questions about edX and the future of learning. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

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  1. Should there be A GED For college? by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 2

    http://articles.chicagotribune...

  2. coursera context by alexgill · · Score: 2

    Coursera is the platform i'm spent time on. Up until six months ago, there was a huge variety of offerings, as a one or two course format. Lately, there seems to be paid 'specializations', and the offers have decreased. My questions is: "will MOOCs be consolidating to a few paid offers in the future ?"

  3. Re:How do you plan on fighting... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2

    >> post-secondary

    I'll bite again then, using the same structure. If Republicans did get a chance to develop post-secondary education, it would look a lot like this. No wasted overhead (tenured professors, administrators, sports or clubs), optimized for people already working (so they can avoid the SJWs who hang around campuses and coffeeshops), and no socially-motivated mandates on curriculum (e.g., no SJW themed composition courses, etc.)

    If you doubt me, check out the demographics of the people who enroll in rural two-year and "commuter" four-year colleges today. :)