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Pardon the Disruption … Innovation Changes How We Think About Higher Education
by Philip DiSalvio
September 4, 2012
The first online course from MITx titled 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics, offered earlier this year, had more students than the entire number of living students who have graduated from the university. Indeed, that number is not far from the total of all the students enrolled there since the 19th century.
MIT reports that 155,000 people registered ...
Read MoreTags: Anant Agarwal, edX, MITx, MOOC, Philip DiSalvio, University of Massachusetts Boston | 2 Comments