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I wish I would have gone to MIT. I love everything about MIT, except maybe their lack of D1 sports. Unfortunately, my complete disregard for high school academics apparently outweighed my disdain for social interaction (which I thought would enable me to fit in perfectly with fellow Asperger sufferers). Anyway, over the last 10 years or so, I have been able to “attend” MIT thanks to their EXCELLENT OpenCourseware program. At this point in my life, I want the knowledge – not the certificate. I will admit, however, to owning several MIT t-shirts that I like to wear and let people infer what they will.
Anyway, one of my dreams may come true! MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:
- organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace
- feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication
- allow for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx
- operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.
MIT expects that this learning platform will enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. MIT also expects that MITx will eventually host a virtual community of millions of learners around the world.
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