Free Harvard And MIT Online Classes For All Starting Fall 2012

Getting an education from two of the most pre-eminent universities in the world will soon be as easy going online.

At least, that’s the unified goal of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which on Wednesday announced they were teaming-up to offer a new online education program, dubbed “edX.”

The inaugural class begins in the fall of this year, and the initial courses are expected to be announced in the summer.

Not only that, but there are absolutely no pre-requisites for the initial courses, aside from having a working computer or mobile device that can connect to the Internet.

“Anybody can sign up, there is no admissions process, there are no entrance exams, nothing” said Anant Agarwal, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday afternoon.

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SIGN UP HERE:  http://www.edxonline.org/