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MIT offers certificates for online courses
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December 20, 2011, Tuesday
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THE Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing technology that will allow students taking courses online to use simulated labs, interact with professors and other students, and earn certificates.
"The driver is to reach everyone out there who can't be here," MIT Provost Rafael Reif said on a conference call with reporters yesterday.
MIT is already known for its OpenCourseWare program, which offers some 2,100 courses online for free.
Until now, students worked through MIT course material on their own and were never tested. Beginning in a few months, however, they will be able to see sought-after professors in videos, engage in student discussion groups, and take examinations.
"It is making MIT available on a grand planet scale," said Anant Agarwal, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "This is a great way to marry our mission in education and our mission in research."
Students wanting to earn certificates through MIT's online program will have to pay a fee, university officials said, adding that fees had not yet been set. It cost US$40,732 to attend MIT for one year on campus in 2011-2012.
Officials said the program would not replace the campus experience and that online courses would be as rigorous as those conducted outside the virtual world. "This is not MIT-lite," Reif said.
Since the OpenCourseWare program was launched nearly a decade ago, more than 100 million people have studied on it MIT said.
Other US schools, including Stanford and Yale, offer similar online programs.
"The driver is to reach everyone out there who can't be here," MIT Provost Rafael Reif said on a conference call with reporters yesterday.
MIT is already known for its OpenCourseWare program, which offers some 2,100 courses online for free.
Until now, students worked through MIT course material on their own and were never tested. Beginning in a few months, however, they will be able to see sought-after professors in videos, engage in student discussion groups, and take examinations.
"It is making MIT available on a grand planet scale," said Anant Agarwal, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "This is a great way to marry our mission in education and our mission in research."
Students wanting to earn certificates through MIT's online program will have to pay a fee, university officials said, adding that fees had not yet been set. It cost US$40,732 to attend MIT for one year on campus in 2011-2012.
Officials said the program would not replace the campus experience and that online courses would be as rigorous as those conducted outside the virtual world. "This is not MIT-lite," Reif said.
Since the OpenCourseWare program was launched nearly a decade ago, more than 100 million people have studied on it MIT said.
Other US schools, including Stanford and Yale, offer similar online programs.
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