Showing posts with label classes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classes. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Learning Specific Skills with Online Classes

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If you are an ambitious and creative individual (and let’s face it: you probably are), chances are that you don’t struggle with coming up with an idea, but rather with choosing from the ideas already swarming around in your head. Or perhaps you struggle with figuring out a way to put your ideas into action?

Even if you have a lot of great plans for various projects—starting a business, developing a website, writing a symphony—executing those plans is another matter. You may have a really great idea for an abstract sculpture, but if you don’t know the basics of metal-working, then your idea will probably never come to fruition.

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Harvard, MIT partner to offer free online courses

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Harvard University's prestige makes the plan a significant development, according to one expert. (Kelvin Ma, Bloomberg / June 21, 2011)

In a move that heightened competition in online education and brought more prestige to the still-fledgling field, Harvard University and MIT announced a partnership Wednesday to offer the public mainly free Internet classes.

Harvard and MIT are each donating $30 million to create a nonprofit organization, to be called "edX" that will develop an Internet platform for the classes and design new ways to teach and learn with technology, according to the two Cambridge, Mass., schools. They will join an emerging arena in which other research universities, Stanford among them, and private ventures around the world are trying to stake out territory.

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