Sunday, January 6, 2013

Virtual Classrooms To Reach 1 Billion People

From Mish's blog:

I received an interesting email from "James in Arizona" today. James offers this comment on online education.
Greetings from Arizona, Mish,

I ran across this website while exploring various online options for my daughter (in high school, but she’s very computer savvy, so I’m looking for options to expand her interests/basis). It is
EdX, an online education group started by Harvard and MIT, but other universities are joining.

Hopefully this online education program will finally put a torpedo in the expense of college.

Have a wonderful New Year, and thanks so much for the effort you put forth on your blog, and educating those like me.

James in Arizona
Here is a sample of free courses offered in the link above.
  • Foundations of Computer graphics
  • Circuits and electronics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Software as a service
  • Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation
  • Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
The classes are free but unfortunately you do not get credit hours for them.

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