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One Of The World’s Top Universities Is Offering All Of Their Courses Online, To Anyone, For Free
Thefreethoughtproject.com
Boston, Mass. – For learners who don’t want to invest in a full residential college ride, or who want to avoid the massive amounts of debt associated with university studies, a program called MITx could be a viable alternative.
With the advent of the internet came a revolution of information becoming available to the average person. MIT University took it one step further when they began a program called OpenCourseWare, which allowed anyone to download full course materials for virtually all classes for free.
But the new MITx interactive online learning platform will go further, giving students access to online laboratories, self-assessments and student-to-student discussions.
The freeing of information, by enabling people to study any subject available at MIT, was a great advancement for the ability of people to grow their knowledge base without having to go to college. The drawback is that there was no credentialing for learners that chose to utilize the program, thus providing minimal professional benefit.
In light of that fact, MIT began a program called MITx, which offers an “MIT –sanctioned certificate” for the completion of courses.
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“This is not MIT light. This is not an easier version of MIT,” said Provost L. Rafael Reif. “An MITx learner, anywhere they are, for them to earn a credential they have to demonstrate mastery of the subject just like an MIT student does.”
IT’s not a full-fledged diploma bearing the name MIT, as there is concern over potentially diluting the value of a degree earned by the university’s traditional program. However, the program provides for participants to be credentialed with an MITx certificate, as to provide for potential professional growth by being able to show mastery of a subject.
Most individuals “want to have piece of paper saying they learned something and maybe that will help them get a job,” Reif said.
Everything would be free, but program participants that want to receive a credential will be required to pay a small fee. The program is available to learners across the globe, all that is needed is internet access.
With the cost of university education growing exponentially and forcing many to forgo a higher education, this program looks to be a great equalizer for individuals throughout the world.
Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, free thinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs. Jay’s work has previously been published on BenSwann.com and WeAreChange.org. You can follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis, on Facebook at Sir Metropolis and now on tsu.
It was already free the knowledge
So what is the difference between this and Coursera? none.
no integrity for this MITx at all…
like this news article says, a “small” fee.
That’s like giving a fish 1 inch of water instead of giving it the whole yard.
Good for MIT in certainly heading in the right direction. Access is good. Worth wild certificate is not.
Usually I am quite crass when writing about the blending, still, of judeo-christian ‘schools’
with ‘education’.
Like all ofthe divinity schools of the Ivy league ((Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth,Princeton, Columbia,
and the rest).
How else can I put it, but direct and to the point?
These 501 (c) 3 and 501 (c) 4 non-profit Tax exempt so called Universities (also, Boston College
and the Like) are long time standing HOARDING CENTERS that in reality, do NOT
need to charge one dime to ANY student that crosses their threshold!
Harvard, ALONE, has an endowment that is the LARGEST of any other in ‘Higher Education” (LOVE the way, you consistently practice to deceive ALL, except those that know your
terminology), which is $32.3 BILLION dollars as of June, 2013!
How much is, say for easy figuring, a 10% return, overall, on that fine bit of HOARDING over
the last 379 years or so!
Is that $3.23 BILLION per year without touching the principal?
So, we have a bad year, and only pull a 5% return next year.
Is that $1.651 BILLION for that LOUSY year?
6,655 students in undergraduate programs @ $57,000 per year to live on campus!
That is $379,335,000 total Costs for ALL Undergraduates for the year!
At $380 Million, that leaves $2.85 BILLION in a good investment year, and $1.27 BILLION
IN A LACKLUSTER YEAR!
Question:
WHAT IS THE POINT IN THIS SO-CALLED SCHOOL CHARGING ONE DIME for their superior education?
This is just a blatant example of judeo-christian finishing school HOARDING tendencies.
And, they are ALL a blight on the inner cities where they lie, as they PAY NO PROPERTY
TAX to any municipality they sit in!
Go to Yale’s Campus in New Haven, CT, and view for yourself the HARD CORE ghetto that exists all around it!
It is in-bred into their truly vile creed and in their human nature!
Caucasian male judeo-christo-CREEPS and their god damn white-skinned mangod FABLE religion!
TRUE hoarders who will kill to HOARD MORE!
Ivy League Harvard University is PROOF of that!