MIT Will Offer Certificates to Outside Students in Online Courses

https://chronicle.com/article/MIT-Will-Offer-Certificates-to/130173/?sid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en

Here's how it will work: MITx will give anyone free access to an online-course platform. Users will include students on the MIT campus, but also external learners like high-school seniors and engineering majors at other colleges. They'll watch videos, answer questions, practice exercises, visit online labs, and take quizzes and tests. They'll also connect with others working on the material.

Although access to MITx courseswill carry no cost, the institute plans to charge a "modest" fee for certificates that indicate a learner has mastered the content. It's unclear exactly how the assessment will work.

What is clear is that any credentials "would not be issued under the name MIT," according to an MITx fact sheet. "Rather, MIT plans to create a not-for-profit body within the institute that will offer certification for online learners of MIT coursework," the sheet says. "That body will carry a distinct name to avoid confusion."

 

Here's a bit of a discussion on that same topic

http://www.degreeinfo.com/general-distance-learning-discussions/40677-mit-offer-certificates-outside-students-via-online-courses.html

 

I can't wait! Of course these will likely be in something I have no business studying lol, but it's still exciting!!

 

Boston University education affiliate has Project management Certificate that actually offered by BU Corporate Education Center.
It would be nice if MIT has a similar.
BUCEC

 

For free? The MIT classes will be free (my favorite price!)

 

I missed the free
Wow that great.

So the difference is that unlike Open Course Ware - here students will be participating and graded?

 

I believe so. They have a crude FAQ uploaded, but the program hasn't been officially launched yet, so we'll have to wait and see. I'm not anywhere near capable of the computer-type courses, and even many of the STEM subjects are way over my head, but that won't stop me from trying one or two!

 

Spoken like a true education junkie/dork....hahaha (I'm President of the club).

 

Thanks Bruce. See ya in class

 

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