Harvard and MIT Offer Online Education for Free

Harvard and MIT Offer Online Education for Free

The joint venture builds on an existing MIT platform that serves 120,000 students worldwide.
Harvard has joined with MIT to deliver courses over the Internet, for free, to anyone in the world. The new joint venture, called edx, builds upon MIT’s existing online learning platform, MITx, which already runs a handful of courses, including Circuits and Electronics, for around 120,000 students worldwide.