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05/03/2012
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Site EDX offer distance learning courses with certificate of both institutions.
First courses to be offered from the second half.
Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), academic institutions both in weight and often rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer free online courses.
The two schools, located close to one another in Cambridge in the U.S. state of Massachusetts are partnering in an initiative called EDX just five months after the MIT MITx present, its system of distance learning that allows students obtain certificates completing course work at a distance.
According to the Harvard Gazzette, official publication of the university, the EDX platform will be built on top of MITx, and you can count on the participation of other institutions of higher education.
The two universities plan to study, through the site, how the technologies can be applied to both distance education and for the face. In testimony before the Harvard Gazzette, the president of Harvard, Drew Faust, said the two institutions "will use these new technologies and research that will enable them to lead the direction of apredizado online in ways that benefit students, colleagues and people around the country and the world. "
Investment
Both Harvard and MIT U$ 30 million earmarked for the project (over R$ 50 million), which will be overseen by a nonprofit group based in Cambridge. Anant Agarwal, who led the development of MITx and directed the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at MIT, will be the first president of the EDX.
The group plans to offer its first courses in the autumn (Northern Hemisphere) and hopes that other universities to enter the partnership.
Closing his eyes to the old rivalry of schools in the race for academic progress and courting teachers and students, MIT President Susan Hockfield said that they also work together. "One of the best kept secrets is the deep richness of collaboration between Harvard and MIT," she said at a news conference, the next president of Harvard, Drew Faust.
Online learning has become a controversial topic of education in several schools, including MIT, which offer hundreds of online courses in which students work with the material following the rhythm, but are not evaluated. Now, the trend is to offer online classes in which students can obtain certificates showing the event that dominate the subject.
MIT reported that 120 000 people signed up for the first course of its kind - Introduction to Circuits and Electronics - opened by MITx earlier this year. In half of the course, about 20,000 still actively followed the course.
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