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Wednesday, 08 February 2012

MIT’s New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional Model, Program’s Leader Says

Wired Campus, of The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 6, 2012

The recent announcement that Massachusetts Institute of Technology would give certificates around free online course materials has fueled further debate about whether employers may soon welcome new kinds of low-cost credentials. Questions remain about how MIT’s new service will work, and what it means for traditional college programs...

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Q. You refer to what’s being given by MITx as a certificate. But there’s also this trend of educational badges...

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