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June 2012

Harvard, MIT to launch free online courses soon

By Tarunkumar Singhal, Raman Jokhakar, Chartered Accountants
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Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined hands to launch an ambitious INR3,711 million initiative under which they will offer free online courses to students, a collaboration that will be headed by Indian-origin professor Anant Agarwal.

The new online education platform ‘EdX’ would be overseen by a Cambridge-based not-for-profit organisation and be owned and governed equally by the two universities. MIT and Harvard have committed INR1,856 million each in institutional support, grants and philanthropy to launch the collaboration.

Director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Agarwal led the development of the platform.

“EdX represents a unique opportunity to improve education on our own campuses through online learning, while simultaneously creating a bold new educational path for millions of learners worldwide,” MIT president Susan Hockfield said.

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