Exciting...I wonder if Ugandans ever take part in these, seriously. I hope MUK and HUAWEI can be challenged to make the recent MOU (read: intended courses) as open as this...
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Kiggundu Mukasa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/education/harvard-and-mit-team-up-to-offer-free-online-courses.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general > > In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that > offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — > Harvard<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/harvard_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org> > and > the Massachusetts Institute of > Technology<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/massachusetts_institute_of_technology/index.html?inline=nyt-org> > on > Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer > free online courses from both universities. > > Harvard’s involvement follows M.I.T.’s announcement in December that it > was starting an open online learning project, MITx. Its first course, > Circuits and Electronics, began in March, enrolling about 120,000 students, > some 10,000 of whom made it through the recent midterm exam. Those who > complete the course will get a certificate of mastery and a grade, but no > official credit. Similarly, edX courses will offer a certificate but not > credit. > > But Harvard and M.I.T. have a rival — they are not the only elite > universities planning to offer free massively open online courses, or > MOOCs, as they are known. This month, Stanford, Princeton, the University > of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan announced their partnership > with a new commercial company, Coursera <https://www.coursera.org/>, with > $16 million in venture capital. > > Meanwhile, Sebastian Thrun <http://robots.stanford.edu/>, the Stanford > professor who made headlines last fall when 160,000 students signed up for > his Artificial Intelligence course, has attracted more than 200,000 > students to the six courses offered at his new company, > Udacity<http://www.udacity.com/> > . > > The technology for online education, with video lesson segments, embedded > quizzes, immediate feedback and student-paced learning, is evolving so > quickly that those in the new ventures say the offerings are still > experimental. > > “My guess is that what we end up doing five years from now will look very > different from what we do now,” said Provost Alan M. > Garber<http://www.provost.harvard.edu/people/bio_agarber.php> of > Harvard, who will be in charge of the university’s involvement. > > EdX, which is expected to offer its first five courses this fall, will be > overseen by a nonprofit organization governed equally by the two > universities, each of which has committed $30 million to the project. The > first president of edX will be Anant > Agarwal<http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/723>, > director of M.I.T.’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence > Laboratory, who has led the development of the MITx platform. At Harvard, > Dr. Garber will direct the effort, withMichael D. > Smith<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/content/deans-biography>, > dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, working with faculty members to > develop and deliver courses. Eventually, they said, other universities will > join them in offering courses on the platform….. > > > > > > > > > -- Acta Virum Probant -- > > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. > -- Love indeed conquers all..... Brian A. Ssennoga
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