{"id":132,"date":"2012-05-03T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/?p=132"},"modified":"2012-05-03T10:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T10:32:22","slug":"mit-and-harvard-launch-a-revolution-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/mit-and-harvard-launch-a-revolution-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT and Harvard launch a \u2018revolution in education\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several high profile open course initiatives have attracted a lot of attention in recent months. These include <a href=\"http:\/\/see.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Engineering Everywhere<\/a>, (especially Sebastian Thrun&#8217;s popular<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ai-class.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Artificial Intelligence course<\/a>), the internet start-up spin-off &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.udacity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Udacity<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mitx.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MITx<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coursera<\/a> (Princeton, Stanford, Michigan and Pennsylvania) and now \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edxonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">edX<\/a>, a collaboration between MIT and Harvard.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.class-central.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Class Central<\/a> lists 53 ongoing or upcoming open courses from top institutions. Clearly, collaboration between several institutions, and between traditional universities and private providers, is a trend.<\/p>\n<p>The following is from <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/edx-launched-0502.html\" target=\"_blank\">MIT News<\/a>\u00a0(2 May 2012):<\/p>\n<p>Online edX courses will open both universities\u2019 classrooms to the world while enhancing on-campus learning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;MIT President Susan Hockfield and Harvard University President Drew Faust, accompanied by top officials from both institutions, announced on Wednesday a new collaboration that will unite the Cambridge-based universities in an ambitious new partnership to deliver online education to learners anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The new venture, called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edxonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">edX<\/a>, will provide interactive classes from both Harvard and MIT \u2014 for free \u2014 to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. But a key goal of the project, Faust said, is \u201cto enhance the educational experience of students who study in our classrooms and laboratories.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Continue reading this article <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/edx-launched-0502.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several high profile open course initiatives have attracted a lot of attention in recent months. These include Stanford Engineering Everywhere, (especially Sebastian Thrun&#8217;s popular\u00a0Artificial Intelligence course), the internet start-up spin-off &#8211;\u00a0Udacity,\u00a0MITx, Coursera (Princeton, Stanford, Michigan and Pennsylvania) and now \u00a0edX, a collaboration between MIT and Harvard.\u00a0Class Central lists 53 ongoing or upcoming open courses from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10534,10556,10549,10552,10548,10555,10547,10553,10550,10551,10554],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-change11","tag-edx","tag-harvard","tag-michigan","tag-mit","tag-mitx","tag-open-courses","tag-pennsylvania","tag-princeton","tag-stanford","tag-udacity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}