The Massachusetts Institute of Technology works under the name of MITx to new technology for online education to make it possible, among others through ‘virtual’ labs. Also, going to MIT against payment certificates to hand out.
MIT provides through its OpenCourseWare website since 2002 courses for free; in the meantime, the counter on more than two thousand courses on demand. In the course of the years have more than a hundred million people, one or more online courses. Students on the OpenCourseWare website used, however, were never tested.
A refreshed online education from MIT should, however, changed. Under the name of MITx the university wants an even bigger part of the teaching materials online to providing, also in part to students on the MIT campus study. The university has to own say ‘multiple millions’ of dollars spent.
The decided on MITx will be enriched with online video, while using the additional iLabs program, students on distance trials have been in physical laboratories. In addition, through MITx among students to communicate about course materials and must be tested. In addition, MIT through its online platform credits providing. A first version of MITx should be out this spring.
MIT claims that MITx for the most part will be free, just like the current OpenCourseWare offerings. Students, however assessed, will have to pay. The rates for this have still to be finally determined, but MIT is talking about an ‘affordable’ amount. To term vision, the university library also has other sources of income to be able to drill, such as the provision of course materials to companies.